Opinion Precisely the representatives of the votes that Mashreki received in a rare stage in his years in the media - are afraid of a public "like" | Israel today

Yair Sharkey's founding text is a gift to every observant family, or if you like: miraculous grace.

Parents whose screenshots leaked onto their cell phones and felt a slap in the face, or a stomach turning, or sorrow, may not have seen that God sent them through a 12 news reporter a box of miracles wrapped in glittering cellophane, inside of which is a golden ladder that allows them to descend from the knowledge that all of us, all Israelis, are religious and secular , we were in it once, and some still can't get off it.

"I write not because I have the strength to write, but because I do not have the strength to die. And for my son who has not yet come into the world," the writer wrote.

Parents whose sons and daughters did come into the world, will feel relieved as soon as they send the canonical confession in the family WhatsApp group (if there is one), and tell their youngsters: feel free to be Sharky.

be you

Don't hide anything.

used to being loyal to the public.

Yair Sharki, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Only those who grew up on Givat Shaul and studied at Yeshiva Makor Haim, had the privilege of living Torah lifestyles and loving them, can provoke thought among religious communities when he says that there is no "wrong thought here about experience or war with an instinct that needs to be subdued, and not about the disposition of the soul, which is exactly like the secret Between a man and a woman."

Sharkey is used to being loyal to the public, and in this case it will take time for the sectors to digest.

At the same time, his post will make it difficult for the heads of seminaries and yeshiva to continue talking about people like him as "perverts".

The bomb he dropped forces a large public to look above the Shabbat table, and choose whether to deny humanity or say: voila.

Yesterday was good, and tomorrow will be too.

Because Sharkey is not only a symbol of those who occupied the benches of the luxurious institutions of religious Zionism as well as the bastions of the secular media - he is also an Israeli symbol, being a member of a bereaved family: one brother was murdered on Holocaust Day, another brother comes out of the closet on Valentine's Day, and the father is a revered lecturer who loves the human beings and their sacrifice to the Torah.

In the Israeli drama of which Sharki is the hero, the dilemma is too challenging and the conflict is sharp and unfair.

Too much rests on the shoulders of the hero and on the shoulders of his parents.

silence.

Gafni, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The (secular) reviews are laudatory

The confession that scorched the social networks and doubled the number of Sharki's followers moved the members of the Knesset.

Among the commenters who expressed their appreciation for the media man: Merav Michaeli and Amichai Shikli, Benny Gantz and Galit Distel, Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked, and even Yitzhak Vaserlauf.

But it is hard to ignore the voices that chose silence.

In the ultra-Orthodox and religious-Zionist sectors, there is crying in the rooms, and in the gardens - silence.

Precisely the representatives of the votes that Mashreki received in a rare stage during his years in the media - are afraid of a public "like".

Not Smotrich, not Ben Gvir, not Gafni.

Sharkey normalized the ultra-orthodox for the viewers of the commercial channel - but as of this week, about 30 mandates believe that Sharkey should be normalized.

Some may have sent him a secret WhatsApp, some may even hold a grudge against him because he favored the unity government at the time, but come on: will a word of encouragement to Sharki hurt them electorally?

Series such as "The Secret of the Haredi Livelihood" and "Brooklyn of the Holy" made accessible to the secular viewer the Haredi that inspires identification, the person beneath the stigma, and were the news version of "Stisel".

normalize the normal

During Sharki's sensitive time, none of the ultra-orthodox politicians reciprocated his kindness.

The gap between the kindness that Sharki did with the ultra-Orthodox, with the national ultra-Orthodox and with the right in its shades, and the cold shoulder he received this week, is evident.

Sharkey is identified with the right and the religious more than any other writer.

Because of the cap, because of the wigs he parted with recently, or just because he is like that.

But from the moment he did not align with all the leaders of the sector - he remained alone in the tower, abandoned to the embraces of secular parties.

Afraid of a public like?

Finance Minister Smotrich, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

For his loyalty to his religious and national positions, he has been criticized since the dawn of his career - as a young reporter in the Galach (2012), in charge of the field of construction and housing and covering the president's house, he came to report a conference in the presence of the prime minister, and security guards who thought he was a hillbilly boy (not that this is an excuse) isolated him from the rest of the media and put him through a humiliating security check. A few years later, as a reporter for News 2, he reported on a fire in the "Betzlem" offices that was caused by an electrical short. Journalists, colleagues, attacked him on the grounds of biased coverage, because it must have been an intentional arson, and a political conflict developed between A little right against a lot left. In the end it turned out that it was really short.

But why dig in the archives?

Just last month, when Rabbi Mazuz attacked Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and said that the Miron disaster was caused by his "illness" - Haaretz attacked the way in which Sharkey explained on Channel 12 the bed that Mazoz is talking about: "It was so important for commentator Yair Sharkey to explain And to reason in 'Shish with Oded Ben Ami' on Channel 12 where the positions come from," it was written there, "as if he was a spokesman for the Council of Sages on behalf of Shas."

It is important for Sharki to mediate Shas to the people. It is important for Shas to make it clear that they are not related to Sharki.

who loses

Those who are afraid to strengthen Sharky and give him a like of empathy, are afraid of the sectoral taboo.

Somehow, adulterers are not afraid of their public status, thieves get political training, respecting parents has long been a matter of interpretation, and even LGBT people are better than LGBT people.

The public representatives who are afraid to look at the mirror that Sharki gives them - will pay an electoral price when the youth will feel that their leadership is losing relevance.

Just as the Shas and Aguda youths left for Ben Gvir's bosom, more young people from other parties will leave that do not align with the 21st century, and with the founding post of those who, after all, want to be fathers at the Shabbat table.

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