The Charedi parties of Shas and UTJ submitted their official party lists for the 24th Knesset on Thursday, and for the first time in a long time, both parties made some changes to their lists.

Shas put some new people in realistic spots for the first time in a while. Their list is as follows: 1: Aryeh Deri, 2 Yaakov Mergi, 3 Yoav Ben Tzur, 4 Michael Michaeli, 5 newly appointed Chaim Bitton, 6 Moshe Arbel, 7 Yinon Azoulai, 8 Moshe Abutbul, 9 Uriel Bosso, 10 Yossi Taib. In the 11th and 12th spots two other new candidates were put in: Avraham Betzalel and Natti Haik respectively. Ere Malul was placed in the 13th spot.

Yahadut Hatorah (UTJ) also made a major change as the Ashkenazi party saw a dramatic change when the Vizhnitz representative Yaakov Tessler was replaced by a representative of the Belzer Chassidim in Yisroel Eichler who was bumped up two spaces to a more realistic position.

The UTJ list is as follows: 1 Moshe Gafni, 2 Yaakov Litzman, 3 Uri Maklev, 4 Meri Porush, 5 Yaakov Asher, 6 Yisroel Eichler, 7 Yaakov Pindrus, 8 Yaakov Tessler, 9 Eliyahu Baruchi, 10 Moshe Shimon Roth who is a representative of the Sanzer Chassidim.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)