Shas Party leader Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai is directing his campaign efforts to residents of Yehuda and Shomron, calling upon them to cast their ballot for Shas in the Feb. 10th general election for the 18th Knesset.
With the establishment of the Bayit Yehudi Party, which engulfed the now-defunct National Religious Party, Yishai realizes there are many former NRP supporters who are looking for a new home and he hopes that Shas will become the selection of many of them. Shas realizes the Dati Torani voter is without a true home.
Yishai stated that Shas has been there for the Gush Katif refugees, and will continue being there for Yosh residents, many feeling that have been abandoned by those who were responsible for their education, social services and other systems. “I saw and felt the pain and anguish of the Gush Katif families on my skin. I was there.”
He added Shas officials have been meeting with leaders of the Dati Leumi Torani schools, hoping to work out an agreement towards assisting the Dati Leumi Torani education system as well.
Yishai further explained that Shas has undertaken to work to save the Dati Torani education network and as such, in the next coalition talks, the party hopes to make demands towards the launching of a new Dati Torani network to address the needs of the Zionist Torani community. He stated this will be done regardless of support and without any preconditions, hoping such a system will be a totally new framework similar to Shas’ Mayan Chinuch system which operates on its own.
In his letter, Yishai expresses his hope that there will be an expanded relationship between Shas and the chareidi dati leumi community towards sanctifying Hashem’s name.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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If Shas were to attract a large part of the “Dati Leumi” community, it would prove to be a major event in Shas evolving from a “special interest” party to one that could challenge Likud and the survivor of the Labor/Kadimah rivalry for control of Eretz Yisrael.