Mrs. Adina Bar-Shalom, a daughter of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L and a recent Israel Prize recipient spoke out against former Shas leader MK Eli Yishai. Bar-Shalom made her remarks during a chareidi high-tech conference on Tuesday morning, 13 Iyar. She stated that for political reasons, Yishai ten years ago prevented her appointment to Israel’s Council of Higher Education. She stated Yishai did this despite Maran’s approval and bracha over the appointment. She explained that when she was asked to join again three years ago she was unable to due to obvious conflicts of interest as she was heading the Jerusalem chareidi college.
Bar-Shalom also had what to say about the head of the Council of Higher Education, Professor Trachtenberg, stating he and his colleagues did absolutely nothing to integrate chareidim into the nation’s academic world. Even worse she point out was the reality that any and all requests towards achieving this goal was refused. She feels the council lacks good will when it comes to chareidim being integrated into the academic world, and this reality results in damage on a daily basis.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Adina has alot to say on this issue,
Blaming Yishei is not fair, since SHAS hashgafa was not to appoint women to high profile jobs. She would not have ventured any better under Deri.
i highly doubt that if that was the case, that yishai went against Maran ztz”l, that he would be a close confidant of him afterwards
שום תשים מלך. . . מלך ולא מלכה
כבודה בת מלך פנימה
More of Deri’s supporters trying to justify why a popular politician Eli was replaced by a reviled politician to lead the party out of government and possibly toward irrelevance.
So her husband will be king
“In hacha nami”