Bnei Brak was lit this week in a tickling flashlight. The celebrations of the seven blessings for the granddaughter of the rabbi and MK Moshe Gafni have made the crowded city the most politically sought-after place. Four months before the election, everyone is courting the people of the city.
"If you want to talk to young people, you have nothing to get to at 9. Bnei Brak does not wake up before 11."
Israel Cohen, a popular ultra-Orthodox broadcaster from Kol Barama radio, updates me on the city's laws, which are unparalleled.
"Everyone studies and hangs out all night, it's completely the opposite of secular time. It's really a city without a break," he says.
At Gafni's granddaughter's wedding, Merav Michaeli danced separately and Gantz was imitated.
The next day of the same celebrations, the wedding recalculated, and Netanyahu came to mention who the king was.
Hundreds of young ultra-Orthodox gathered and waited to applaud him as he left the hall towards midnight.
The scholars of Heindlich knew how to tell that even Prime Minister Lapid wanted to come and greet, but refused. Truth or rumor, in the city of Torah it seems that right now anything can happen or has already happened.
Merav Michaeli dances at the wedding of Moshe Gafni's granddaughter
The reason for the courtship is clear.
The race for the next government has been launched, and with the help of Dashmia, or their representatives on earth, everyone is looking for where the afikoman will break equality and stagnation among the struggling blocs.
And if you were wondering, there are exactly 67.6 reasons to assume that whoever succeeds in bringing Bnei Brak closer to him - Bnei Brak will bring him closer to the kingdom.
67.6 percent - This is the amazing rate of the number of residents under the age of 30 in the city.
This is a number that indicates what is done during the day and at night, between the times and the suns, the residents of the city of the fathers and the city of the mothers and the city of strollers full of babies.
And the anxiety riddle at the moment is for whom the new ultra-Orthodox are about to vote, and no less important - why.
Say: It is a matter of course, everyone votes as one bloc to C (Torah Judaism), as the great ones will say.
Even in the conversations I had with the people of the city, the saying "in Bnei Brak there is no right to vote, there is a duty to vote" was repeated again and again.
But new polls are challenging this perception.
This week, a "Direct Falls" survey was published, conducted for the old weekly "Family".
The poll determined that 66 percent of the ultra-Orthodox public demand that their elected representatives support an alternative government if Netanyahu does not obtain a majority.
It turns out that one year of exile in the opposition was enough for the ultra-Orthodox public.
"Some would call it an 'earthquake,'" wrote ultra-Orthodox commentator Yishai Cohen of the Kikar Hashabat website.
But a tour of Bnei Brak suggests that it looks more like the tip of the volcano, as conversations with the young ultra-Orthodox reveal a new trend that seeks to "correct Gafni's squint to the left," as one of them clarified, and point to a rising star in the ultra-Orthodox community - Gvir.
How do the two trends fit together?
What are the considerations that drive the ultra-Orthodox's disappearing hand at the ballot box, and how does all this converge on the cost of living?
The full article about the young people of Bnei Brak and its sages - in "Israel This Week"
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