The battles between Shas and Torah Judaism over Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh and Elad - intensifies. Candidates who do not live in the city where they are running and those who are used as bargaining chips.
The goal: the conquest of two of the largest cities in Israel, and the most important for the ultra-Orthodox sector. The control of the city, which serves as the spiritual and commercial capital of the sector, is not only control over huge budgets, public lands and many municipal jobs.