After 10 years, a turnaround in Elad: a Shas representative won the mayoral elections - Walla! News. Currently, it is a majority of about 2,200 votes that decided the battle for the leadership.
The outgoing mayor, Israel Parosh, lost by a margin of only about 2,.200 votes. Political sources claimed that in one of the conversations Deri had with Degal HaTorah chairman, MK Moshe Gafni, he suggested: "Give me Elad, and take a few cities in exchange"