The party decided to highlight the women, and held a conference for 1,500 of them • Deri's daughter: "believes in their power in the movement" • However, in the Knesset list there is no woman

• Yaffe Deri, Desi Illouz and Aryeh Deri

The elections are approaching, the parties are trying to raise every possible vote, and the Shas will put the party's women at the center of activity to bring the maximum votes to the polls, and even to recruit new votes.

In recent days, one large list of women affiliated with Shas, who are capable of influencing public opinion, has been grouped into Shas. Next Sunday, the party intends to hold a large conference in the nation's buildings, where 1,500 women, rabbis' wives, MKs, rabbis who are retired, and anyone with public influence will come to harness them to work for the party's success.

In recent days, all Shas representatives in the area have been asked to give a list of leading women in their community and city, those who give classes, community centers, apply for sick leave, etc. Those women received a phone call with a personal invitation from Arie Deri to attend the conference. In the nation's buildings, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, under the slogan of "If for such a time you have come to the kingdom" said in the Book of Esther about Queen Esther, who was asked to save the people of Israel from Haman.

At the conference, Aryeh Deri and his wife Yaffa spoke, and the president of the Shas Torah Scholars Council, Hakam Shalom Cohen.

One of the organizers is Desi Illouz (Deri), daughter of Shas chairman, who told Israel Today: "Dad called me and asked me to go into the women's conference. I do not hold any political office or any other role in the Shas movement, I am my father's daughter and connect with the importance of the matter.

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"I believe in the power of women in the movement. In the previous election, Dad called me two days before the polls opened and said, 'What about the women? Do what you can now, it's an emergency, you have to get everyone out of the house.' We opened a Wetsap group and asked all SHS representatives to All their women and everyone they think are women who can make a difference.

"We turned them all into administrators and let them all join women. Within two hours there was the maximum that a group could contain. It worked well and in this election everyone understood the importance of women."

She said, "These are respectable women - a woman who has 30 women's classes in this locality, a woman who has an influence. All the great rabbis' wives, all the Shas representative women throughout the country, all the MKs, are all expected to come."

She said, "This time Dad said he believed in female power. I connect with that.

"A woman who makes a secret case comes to the homes of traditional women who are religiously connected, usually fleeing from the political issue, but this time the campaign is a campaign on the Torah, not a political campaign. We believe that if the left government emerges with Lieberman, the entire tradition of the Israeli people will be trampled. Between Deri and Lieberman, it's a war on Jewish identity. "

Desi replied that women have no place on the party list: "Shas is in complete discipline for the Torah scholars, if the council says something different it will happen. There are currently no MKs as part of the rabbis' directive. You do not have to be in the Knesset plenum or in the media role to be respectful. "