Yanki Kanievsky addressed the chairman of Tikva Hadash with a request to be flexible and join the Netanyahu-led government, in exchange for future support from the ultra-Orthodox • Saar, for his part, responded in the negative.
Rabbi Kanievsky with his grandson Yankee
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Eric Sultan
Efforts to form a government:
Yankee Kanievsky, the grandson of the greatest ultra-Orthodox generation, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, today (Sunday) contacted Gideon Saar by phone and asked him to give up his ego in order to form a right-wing government.
He said that if he did, the ultra-Orthodox would remind him of it the day after Netanyahu.
Saar replied in the negative to the request.
This is not the only political conversation that has taken place in recent days at the rabbi's house.
In recent days, sources identified with Naftali Bennett's entourage have turned to the state of the ultra-Orthodox world regarding the non-Netanyahu-led government.
In Rabbi Kanievsky's house, for their part, pressure is being put on the various parties to join the right-wing government headed by Netanyahu.
"There is no doubt that the ultra-Orthodox will go with Netanyahu," says Israel Cohen, a radio commentator for Kol Barama. "The big question is what will happen if the prime minister fails to form a government. If he succeeds all is well and good, but if not, and the possibility of forming a government passes to another candidate, the game can reopen. It is possible that this is what Saar and Bennett are aiming for. "
