Elections in Safed/Eli Ashkenazi
An exciting night passed over the ultra-orthodox cities in Israel.
In Bnei Brak, the former mayor Hanoch Seibert won the race for mayor with 59% of the votes, he defeated the incumbent Minister of Health, Uriel Bosso of Shas who won only 36.6% of the votes in the city. But Shas wins in the city of Elad, where the candidate on its behalf Yehuda Botbol, defeated the incumbent mayor Israel Parosh.
In Beitar Ilit and Modi'in Ilit, less like changes.
Mayor of Modi'in Illit Yaakov Asher Guterman, and Mayor of Beitar Illit Meir Rubinstein continue for another term at the will of the voters.
Local elections have always aroused more interest in ultra-Orthodox cities than anywhere else.
But the matter is even more significant this year, when Agudath Israel and Degal Torah are not running together in cities where they have insisted on doing so for many years, including Elad, where Degal Torah signed an agreement with Shas. The latter is entirely for the local authority elections, which have been described as "a fateful campaign that must not be shirked."
Beitar Ilit and Modi'in Elite do not like changes/Eli Ashkenazi
In the newspaper Yad Na'am, the elections were described as "a fateful battle that must not be shirked."
An ultra-orthodox person in Bnei Brak/Reuven Castro
It was clear to everyone that Deri was trying to achieve improved results for Shas in Ashdod, Beit Shemesh and Elad, and therefore many thought that he would withdraw the candidacy of Health Minister Ariel Bosso for mayor of Bnei Brak, as soon as the other cities were satisfied. This was not the case and neither was a court petition, according to which , Bosso did not move his residence from Petach Tikva to Bnei Brak at all, to no avail. But in the end Hanoch Seibert, the candidate on behalf of the Torah Banner, won, to the surprise of no one.
The elections arouse great interest not only in the purely ultra-Orthodox cities, but also in cities whose residents fear they will become so. Yossi Kakun, who won the elections tonight defeating the incumbent mayor Shuki Ohana, is a Shas candidate who landed in the municipal political arena a few months ago, despite not being a resident of the city.
Nir Gaz, a supporter of Ohana, angrily announced, "There will be segregation on buses and road closures on Saturdays. The city is slipping through our hands, Aryeh Deri dropped a man here who came from the mountains and who doesn't even know the residents here."
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