Agudat Yisrael MK opens wounds with satirical critique of Degel, Shas

With a wounds to haredi domestic togetherness still fresh, Agudat Yisrael MK Meir Porush ripped off a bandages on Monday morning with a clever conflict opposite a Shas Party and Degel Hatorah personality MK Moshe Gafni.

Speaking on a haredi radio hire Kol Barama, Porush indicted Gafni of destroying a Agudah-Degel fondness that forms a United Torah Judaism domestic party, that has run on a corner sheet for some 30 years.

During a new metropolitan elections, Degel and Shas shaped a agreement whereby they would opinion for any other’s possibilities in opposite cities – in several cases, particularly Jerusalem, to a wreckage of Agudah.

In a capital, Shas and Degel corroborated Moshe Lion – a crony of Shas authority Aryeh Deri who is Sephardi and from a national-religious village – and went opposite Agudah’s claimant Yossi Daitch, who was strongly corroborated by Porush.

In a second round, elements of Agudah – including from Gur, a largest hassidic village – preferred to opinion for physical claimant Ofer Berkovitch in punish for Degel’s fondness with Shas.

The elections in a infancy haredi city of Elad were also a peep point, with Degel and Shas similar to behind maestro Jerusalem metropolitan legislature member Yitzhak Findrus for mayor opposite Agudah’s obligatory Yisrael Porush, who happens to be Meir Porush’s son.

Degel and Shlomei Emunim – a coterie within Agudah representing smaller hassidic communities with Meir Porush as a conduct – had formerly worked out a understanding where Yisrael Porush would step down as Elad mayor in preference of a Degel candidate, and in lapse Degel would behind a claimant of Shlomei Emunim in Beit Shemesh.

Yisrael Porush eventually reneged on that deal, and Shas and Degel’s support for Findrus looked expected until a justice statute non-professional Findrus given his categorical chateau was in Jerusalem and not Elad. Porush simply won reelection.

These groups and a bad blood they have caused led Degel activists to actively assume about abandoning a 30-year fondness with Agudah and join Shas for Knesset and metropolitan elections.

“Moshe Gafni took a really extended step and adopted a routine in Elad whereby he wanted to get Elad – and subsequent time he would give it to [Shas chairman] Arye Deri,” a elder Porush said. “But with a same passion that he has fought Agudat Yisrael, he has always pronounced that Rabbi Shach told him that he needs to quarrel opposite a control of a eastern communities [Sephardim],” he added.
“Moshe Gafni took a step here: he distant UTJ in Jerusalem,” he continued, observant that distinct a prior arrangement in that Degel and Agudah would swap as possibilities for a capital’s mayor, now Degel has deserted a hassidic partners and thrown a lot in with Shas.

“He [Gafni] has broken what was called United Torah Judaism and found a tie with a Sephardim in these elections,” fumed Porush on Monday.

Porush also angry Shas and a care by observant that worshiped haredi personality and Degel owner Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach pronounced that Shas was non-professional for domestic leadership.

Shach shaped Degel in 1988, though had corroborated Shas in a 1984 Knesset elections, revelation his village of Ashkenazi non-hassidic haredim to opinion for a Sephardi haredi party.

Speaking during a Shas Knesset coterie meeting, Deri strongly criticized Porush and called on him to apologize, though pronounced that he did not consider Shas and Degel could run together in destiny elections.

“Severe things were pronounced today, as if Jerusalem had depressed into Sephardi hands,” pronounced Deri, adding that Porush’s comments were “an offense” to Shas’s rabbinic leadership.

“Who do we listen to? To a master, a Rosh Yeshiva [Shas devout personality Rabbi Shalom Cohen],” insisted Deri, observant that Cohen’s eremite care was only as current as that of any other haredi rabbinic leaders, in a anxiety to Agudah’s Council of Torah Sages, that is dominated by Gur grand Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter.

“I don’t wish to ask where a pointy and transparent viewpoint was of those who upheld Berkovitch,” Deri continued.

The Shas personality pronounced that he “very most hopes” that Porush will apologize “without stuttering, but buts, and contend that he done a mistake,” adding that he did not wish to total adult “30 years of harm that we suffered from those people.”

Deri pronounced that a Shas-Degel domestic fondness in place of Agudah-Degel “is not an option” given Shas “draws votes from a extended operation of communities.” He referred to Shas’s interest to normal eremite voters, who opinion for a Sephardi haredi party.
Gafni has not nonetheless responded to Porush’s comments.

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