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NEWS
Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisroel Submit Joint UTJ List to
Elections Committee
By Yechiel Sever
United Torah Judaism submitted a joint list comprised of
Degel HaTorah and Agudas Yisroel representatives to the
Elections Committee this week.
The list contains the following names in the indicated order:
Rabbi Yaakov Litzman (AY), Rabbi Moshe Gafni (DHT), Rabbi
Meir Porush (AY), Rabbi Uri Maklev (DHT), Rabbi Menachem
Eliezer Moses (AY), Rabbi Yisroel Eichler (AY), Rabbi
Menachem Carmel (DHT), Rabbi Yaakov Guterman (DHT), Rabbi
Avraham Yosef Lazerson (AY) and Rabbi Shimon Haddad (DHT).
If only six candidates win Knesset seats, in the middle of
the term an Agudas Yisroel representative will resign to
bring in Degel HaTorah representative Rabbi Menachem
Carmel.
The Degel HaTorah executive board says that based on
instructions from gedolei Yisroel shlita a decision
was reached to form a joint list in order to avoid contention
during the elections. At the same time and in consideration
of the factions that make up Agudas Yisroel, Degel HaTorah
will receive part of the equality it is entitled to by having
representatives placed in the seventh and eighth slots based
on a sense of responsibility to the public, which is Degel
HaTorah's main motivation.
Unlike previous elections, a detailed agreement between
Agudas Yisroel and Degel HaTorah was not drawn up. The only
issues agreed on relate to positioning on the joint list and
the rotation, whereas no arrangement has been formulated
regarding government posts and other issues of daily affairs
after the elections.
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