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My response to always ask questions is until told otherwise my assumption is Rav Landau assumes Rav Chaim Kanievsky was asked the wrong questions the same way Rav Aharon Feldman does since he never claims to have clarified the issue with Rav Chaim Kanievsky. The reason for my assumption is Rav Berel Po Povarsky wrote a letter which my Rosh Yeshiva read intently which makes it clear that he personally was mevarer the issue with Rav Chaim Kanievsky personally with all the pertinent details including all the potential reasons not to be permitted to vote in the w.z.o. elections and he still supported voting for Eretz Hakodesh. Rav Yosef Efrati did the same thing as well. The son of my Rav just spoke to Rav Yosef Efrati’s son Rav Moshe Efrati and he confirmed his father being mevarer with Rav Chaim Kanievsky as well. This is in spite being Rav Elyashivs main gabai (since Rav Elyashiv had stated in 2010 that it was forbidden for Shas to do similarly. Rav Chaim Kanievsky told Rav Efrati he wasn’t arguing on his severe but rather it was a different shayla. Another important point someone else said Rav Aharon Feldman said that he checked with Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky twice and was told by him that he’s against voting. 1st of all that wasn’t Rav Aharon Feldman’s claim. What he actually said was he checked with his gabai twice not Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky himself but more importantly my brother spoke to Rav Shmuels oldest son in Eretz Yisroel and Rav Shmuel’s gabai who both said Rav Shmiel very much supported for Eretz Hakodesh 5 years ago and never retracted from his opinion and now does not have the koach to deal with the issue. My brother then actually was able to reach Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky himself last week who told him to follow his personal posek. Bottom line it’s true that Rav Shmuel does not have the strength to personally deal with the issue now but he certainly supported Eretz Hakodesh in the past and contrary to what some have stated never fell off his original position.
Both Rav Berel Povarsky an accepted godol beyisroel and Rav Yosef Efrati who was Rav Elyashiv ztl’s main gabai for many years and a big talmid chochom in his own right testified that they confirmed with Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztl that he supported voting for Eretz Hakodesh in spite of fully understanding the question with all of the potential reasons not to do so including his holy shver Rav Elyashiv ztl’s previous psak to which he responded it’s a different shayla. Whether one should or should not vote is dependent on one’s personal posek but as far as there being various gedolim supporting Eretz Hakodesh that is just factually true. When one has a halachik shayla or any question which is dependent on havana and yedios hatorah one obviously needs daas torah to know how to view the situation but when one is talking about what factually happened it has nothing to do with daas torah. If theoretically I ask my wife a question and she answers no and a big talmid chochom says she said yes to me I don’t throw away the truth that she told me no just because a much bigger lamdan and Talmid Chacham said she said yes because even gedolim have a right to their halachik opinion but not to change actual facts. If one can confirm that Rav Chaim Kanievsky supported Eretz Hakodesh fully aware of all the factors with the testimony of gedolim and talmidei chachomim with no personal negia just because Rav Aharon Feldman says Rav Chaim Kanievsky never supported them not because he claimed to check but just because he didn’t believe it made sense for Rav Chaim to do so Rav Aharon Feldman is wrong on the facts based on reliable testimony. That’s not an eilu ve eilu regarding that point.