Speaking with the Knesset Channel on Holocaust Remembrance Day 5774, Adina Bar-Shalom, a daughter of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L confirmed she is not ruling out entering the political arena. Bar-Shalom explained that her chareidi college remains her first priority and if entering politics will serve to advance her ongoing efforts to expand, she would use the opportunity.
Rabbanit Bar-Shalom will be among the residents selected to light a torch on Independence Day. She has also been tapped to receive the prestigious Israel Prize for her life’s work.
Bar-Shalom told interviewer Nechama Dweck that she is giving serious consideration to entering politics by running for Knesset in the next elections. When asked what political framework she is examining Bar-Shalom responded that she only recently began contemplating the move and she has not decided.
Speaking to Yediot Achronot she added that what is for certain is that running under the Shas banner is not an option due to ideological differences and the party’s position regarding women on the roster.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Kahalon’s bew party would be a good fit. It would put a lot of pressure on Shas. It would also create opportunities for moderate Charedim who would not be able to vote for Likud or Bayit Hayehudi.
She is quite a woman, a real activist and will certainly shift votes from SHAS to her party. Go for it!
SHE DOES NOT SHARE THE VIEWS OF HER FATHER. PLEASE DON’T CALL HER RABBANIT AND DEFINITELY DON’T MAKE THIS INTO A GOOD THING.
While her father was alive she would never in a million years think about doing these things that she has been doing in the past 6 months since he died. Her brothers don’t approve and she is an embarrassment to the entire family.
Her husband is a rav and a dayan so she definitely can be called a rabbanit.
Why is she “an embarrassment to the entire family”? How do you know this? Are you a family member? Did you hear it directly first hand from her brothers? Or are you being motzi shem rah? (Btw, there are plenty of kids r”l from very choshuva families who no longer share the views or lifestyles of their fathers. Would you call them embarrassments too?)
It’s sefirat ha’omer. Let’s have a little more ahavat Yisrael, please.
The only issue for frum voters in the next election will be conscription. If she is anti-conscription, she is hareidi. If she is pro-conscription, she isn’t.
She has expressed pro-peace views, which she shares with many other hareidi leaders (but not with the religious zionists), and which becomes important due to the implied threat of the hareidim to ally with the “left” to block conscription.