It appears that with each passing day Shas leader Aryeh Deri is aware the elections are coming and there is a great deal of work ahead, compelling him to curtail the theatrics and get down to business. As expected, Deri has not resigned as the head of Shas and only resigned from Knesset, which is really symbolic since he is aware new elections are on the horizon. Deri is not expected to leave Shas, but to remain as the leader of the party and run as the party’s leader in the upcoming elections. Hence, the Shasgate video is slowly being pushed aside and Deri is returning to his old self and election concerns amid dismal pre-election polls.
Some question how he is returning since he really never left, but be that as it may, it appears Deri is back at the helm and has officially ended the self-imposed period of mourning that followed the release of the damaging video tape. Persons close to Deri explain he is certain that Eli Yishai is behind the release of the video despite adamant denials from Yishai and his rav, HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz Shlita.
Lior Edri, who is close to HaGaon HaRav Moshe Yosef Shlita and is number 13 on the Shas list, has taken the oath of office and will be a Shas MK for the duration of the 19th Knesset’s tenure in place of Aryeh Deri.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This is really all disgusting. Honestly im not holding in politics, but all I see is jews fighting with other jews, jews hating other jews. We are shooting purself in the foot.
And why is yeshiva World proud they are covering this? Everyone says the shmutz on the internet is bringing klal yisroel down, but why is this Lashon Harah any Better!!
This is all sickening, we must stop!!!!
I thought the chareidim were supposed to stay away from the secular politics and focus on talmud torah and driving closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu.
Ad Masei!!!
It is truly a joke when I see a charlatan wearing a black hat as though he were a respectable Torah abiding person but in this case, it is a fallacy. I can’t believe how much time has been wasted discussing this man who is NOT a Ben Torah otherwise he would not have been convicted of fraud and other underworld business. He continues to wear his Purim outfit as though it is his regular attire. He’ll tell you that it wasn’t him who set up a large tent on HaKablan Street in the Har Nof, Jerusalem neighborhood where he lives and caused undue havoc and discontentment from all of the neighbors and visitors as streets were shot office and more police than necessary to navigate people in and out of the neighborhood. He stated he resigned so let the neighborhood return to normal – no, “He” then declared that Shas couldn’t survive without him. There were hundreds of young yeshiva students that belonged in shiur and the bet midrash learning but meanwhile they were mulling around in this tent wasting their time. There was a goof-ball dancing around with a tallit over his head as he was disillusioned that it was somehow Simchat Torah. This is why Deri doesn’t belong in politics as he is a deceitful person as this should have never happened. There wasn’t any permission granted by the Har Nof residents committee that a large tent would be erected and also that traffic would be snarled. This is a chutzpan!!! Not one adult was seen at the tent event but boys all were Mevatel Torah on Deri’s say so just like the fiasco at Yishai’s event – it was Deri’s idea.