Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, a prominent figure in the dati leumi community in Eretz Yisrael, heading the Zomet Institute has turned to Shas to lead a united religious bloc in the upcoming election.
Writing in the weekly Shabbat B’Shabbato weekly Torah sheet, among the most widely distributed in Israel, Rabbi Rosen calls on Shas as the only religious party that can head such an initiative. He refers to the religious parties as “exotic gardens” that simply linger, expecting the right-wing to fall into their laps following the elections.
Based on current realities, Rabbi Rosen adds “I am afraid the right-wing parties will diminish the power of the religious parties” and he calls on Shas to act before it is too late.
Seeking to support his posit, the rabbi references to the elect for the first Knesset in which the Religious Front ran united on a single list. This bloc included Mizrachi, HaPoel Mizrachi, Agudas Yisrael and Poalei Agudas Yisrael he explains, stressing the call of the hour must surround concerns with the future character of the state. Rosen feels this is what the situation demands following the deal between Likud and Yisrael Beitenu and the fractionalization taking place in the religious and right-wing parties.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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GO FOR IT… religious parties and make a revolution in the STATE of ISRAEl.
All it takes is the for Dati Leumi party to decide that Torah is more important than Zionism. For example, if the Arabs offer a credible peace offer under which Jews could live securely anywhere in Eretz Yisrael (which probably means our own military, international guarantees), and in which Jews would be governed by our own laws – but the country would be the Islamic Republic of Palestine, there would be no “Jewish flag”, and no Israeli athletes could go to the Olympics to play on Shabbos (unless they qualified for the Palestinian team), and no Israeli girl could parade around in her bathsuit at the Miss World contest (unless she was Miss Palestine). The Hareidi parties would accept, the Zionist parties would prefer to continue the war. While at this point in time its unlikely that the Arabs will make such an offer, it is implicitly always on the table, and this is a critical issue. The zionists could never accept the idea of having to live under Islamic law (with exceptions only for matters where halacha is differnt), any more than they could accept living under Jewish law.