The Shas party issued an official statement on Tuesday saying that it will support the hostage release deal proposal announced by President Joe Biden on Friday.
“At the party meeting that took place yesterday, the Israeli proposal for the hostage deal was discussed. At the end, the party decided to fully support the Israeli proposal, which includes far-reaching measures for the return of the hostages and the observance of the mitzvah of pidyon shevuim,” the statement said.
“Shas supports the proposal and encourages the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet to withstand all the pressures, bring the deal to a conclusion and save the lives of many of our brothers and sisters who are in צרה ובשביה.”
On Sunday, Housing Minister Yitchak Goldknopf met with the families of hostages and told them that the UTJ party will support any proposal that will bring about the release of the hostages.
After the meeting, Goldknopf said: “I told the representatives of the hostages’ families today that our position is that there is nothing greater than the value of life and the mitzvah of pidyon shevuim, since there is a real and tangible danger to their lives. Therefore, we’ll support any proposal that leads to the release of the hostages.”
Religious Zionist party chairman Betzalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir have threatened to leave the government if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agrees to the deal outlined by Biden.
The actual terms of the deal that Israel agreed to are unclear, with some accusing President Biden of stretching the truth about what terms Israel agreed to and others accusing Netanyahu of agreeing to end the war before its goals are complete.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is the same Shas that supported Oslo, right?
Hence Shas has my vote 🗳 at next election.
Notwithstanding, if government capitulates to pressure from supreme kangaroo court, likely that both Shas & Gimmel shall depart from coalition
One question: DO THEY KNOW WHAT IS IN THE DEAL? Or are they following BIBI blindly (for the sake of politics)?
What is the logic behind this?
Where did אֵין פּוֹדִין אֶת
הַשְּׁבוּיִים יוֹתֵר עַל כְּדֵי דְמֵיהֶן go?
If you believe that the deal makes sense, OK. But how can you pledge your support for ANY proposal that will bring about the release of the hostages?
Is this דעת תורה? see גיטין פרק ד’ משנה ו’: אין פודין את השבויים יותר על כדי דמיהם מפני תיקון העולם releasing hundreds or thousands of dangerous terrorists is definitely יותר על כדי דמיהם – we need to daven and increase our שמירת המצות to have the poor hostages released.
Terrible distortion of Torah. Halacha clearly says not to in such a case.
No Hareidim in the Knesset.
I note that Shas and the Ashkenazi Chareidi parties’ representatives do not generally send their sons to the army to fight when things go down due to bad deals like the one proposed – and the Ashkenazi Chareidi reps generally did not serve themselves either. As such, they should step back and let those with real skin in the game make the decisions about war and peace.
an Israeli Yid
An Israeli Yid, well said. When the wars and fighting happens due to all these “deals” Chareidim have no skin in the game and therefore shouldn’t be involved in these “deals”. The problem is that the leftists think the same as some Chareidim and they are in the army….our enemies know our weaknesses and take advantage of that EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The official policy of UTJ is not to be the deciding vote about issues of Israeli security.
For example they abstained in the vote about the Gaza disengagement. Rav AYL Shteinman said straight out that he does not know whether it will end up as a good idea or not.
They did vote aginast the Oslo peace deals with Yassir Arafat because it was so clear that
Arafat was not intent on making peace
Anyone who supports this deal is knowingly and deliberately spilling Jewish blood and will never be forgiven. All of their torah and mitzvos are worth nothing, if they do this. And since their torah is worthless and has no protective power, they and their talmidim should be conscripted immediately and sent to fight in the front line. The hostages’ lives are not worth the hundreds that will be killed as a result of such a deal. Better to let the hostages die than to accept such a deal; they should be treated as already dead anyway.
What “Israeli proposal”. There was no Israeli proposal; Biden made it up, lying as he always does.