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Last Friday, the front page of the ultra-Orthodox newspaper "Yad Na'aman" was devoted entirely to the elections for the local authorities that will be held this week.
"And there is no avoiding it," the ultra-Orthodox leaders wrote in a letter published in Bitaun, which represents the Degel Torah faction.
"Fateful campaign", these are a pair of words that have already become routine in recent days on radio broadcasts, in party newspapers and flyers in ultra-Orthodox cities.
Last Thursday mass conferences were held in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh and Beit Illit.
The two senior Lithuanian rabbis, Rabbi Dov Lando and Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, sat on the podium and encouraged the audience to vote next Tuesday for the party they represent.
Tonight a similar rally will be held in Bnei Brak where thousands of ultra-Orthodox are expected to participate.
Local elections have always aroused greater and more significant interest in ultra-Orthodox cities than anywhere else.
It is not clear why.
After all, what exactly is the campaign about?
On which ultra-Orthodox party will you put more representatives in the council?
Who will be the head of the city?
A candidate of the Torah flag, Agudat Israel or Shas? Will he have a kneich hat on his head or will there be wigs on the sides of his face? It turns out that he is, and this time more than ever.
On October 8, he sent a letter demanding to work for his son's candidacy.
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In the current battle, Torah Judaism is more divided than ever.
Agudat Israel and the Torah flag do not run together in the cities where they insisted on it for many years, and even in Agudat Israel itself, the Jewish wars have become an inseparable part.
One Hassidism against her friend, with all her might.
The list of examples that prove the level of disconnection is long, but one of them stands out and is especially jarring.
Meir Parosh, a minister in Israel and a senior member of Torah Judaism, sent a letter on October 8, when bodies were still lying in the settlements surrounding Gaza, to the secretary of the Council of Torah Elders of Agudath Israel demanding action to advance the candidacy of his son Yisrael Parosh for mayor of Elad.
A week later the two met with Hanoch Seibert and presented a similar demand.
Aryeh Deri met later, in the midst of the war, with Rebbe Magor, head of one of the largest and most powerful Hasids in Israel. On the agenda: deals between Shas and Hasids in the upcoming elections.
The heads of the ultra-Orthodox parties have rarely been interviewed in the past month, even in the ultra-Orthodox media.
Even the warning of Speaker Gali Baharv Miara to mobilize Yeshivas, if legislation is not advanced by the end of next month, failed to wake them up. It is probably better to deal with the internal battles in Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh and not wake the bears from their sleep.
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Sharp criticism of the leadership even within the sector itself.
Haredi in Bnei Brak/Reuven Castro
This disconnect provokes sharp criticism of the political leadership, even within the ultra-orthodox sector.
A sense of discomfort and deep disgust also reaches some ultra-Orthodox voters.
The criticism of the ultra-orthodox sector that does not bear the burden of recruiting for the IDF is added to this, and many do not understand the great drama surrounding the local elections. "There are elections, the government has decided on this and we have to fight in this battle," say some of the local representatives in their defense, but the intense preoccupation with this compared to an election campaign Sleepy with the rest of the population and the authorities in Israel leaves no room for doubt as if the leadership and the ultra-Orthodox businessmen now care more about the jobs and positions in the local authorities than concern for the country.
The sense of urgency and urgency that comes this time from the political and spiritual leadership in the shadow of the war that is being waged in Gaza is unprecedented. The possibility that one party will register a greater achievement From her membership in the city council or if one contestant will beat his friend in the battle for mayor, they are busy as if Israel is not conducting a campaign for its existence and destiny. There are no 240 soldiers who have fallen in Gaza, no 136 hostages being held captive by Hamas or terrorist attacks that have occurred in recent weeks. The ultra-orthodox leadership operates in a parallel universe, two states to the other nations
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