Jewish Home: Shas refused religious bloc • Shas: was never on agenda

Rivalry between 'Jewish Home' and hareidi parties - Shas and United Torah Judaism - develops and occupies an honorable place in the media as well.

This morning (Monday) officials at the Jewish Home said in Channel 7, that during the election campaign - and in recent weeks - they turned out of distress to MK Aryeh Deri, and begged him to create a religious block, but Deri refused to meet with them and said that in Netanyahu's opinion their place is in the opposition.

They said, "Deri threw us and rolled us down the stairs, so we had to turn to Yair Lapid. From the moment that the haredim heard that an alliance was created with Lapid, they asked to meet. Now they produce a false presentation as if we neglected them."

Aryeh Deri's office did not remain silent: "NRP's activists' conscience is probably unquiet over the past day and as a desperate step of protection they spread lies. Since the elections, no request was made to Deri by Bennett, the only meeting between them was initiated by Deri and failed in the subject of a block. "

Even Minister Eli Yishai, who met several times with senior Jewish Home members and with the party chairman MK Naftali Bennett himself, insists that he had never asked the religious party to create a block with haredi parties or with Shas.

In an interview with MK Meir Porush before the elections, the subject was raised of a meeting at his house with Bennett. At the interview it was well understood that nothing practical would come of the meeting, certainly not Bennett's agreement to create a block with haredi parties.

"In all votes in the Knesset Ivoted with the Haredim"

In a conversation with MK Uri Ariel of Jewish Home, he admits he was not part of the conversations in which the subject of a bloc during or after elections, but mentions that for four years the subject of the block was raised between the haredi parties and right party often.

"For four years I went to the Minister Yishai, and others, I turned and said: 'We are a great power that was sufficiently expressed. I consented that Minister Yishai will head the block, the head of the largest party, and offered to act as a united front for the three topics of interest to all of us: the world of Torah, Shabbat and the Land of Israel." He was answered, of course, negatively.

"I'm not saying that there was no mutual aid, but we never acted as a front end. In the issue of Shabbat, for example, our opinions are equal, each one did everything he could, there was certainly fruitful cooperation, but the block? To operate as twenty seats plus minus consolidated? That was not! "

No, he did not know what Naftali Bennett and Eli Yishai talked about, or Naftali Bennett with Aryeh Deri, but he personally offered more than once, even to MK Meir Porush and Minister Eli Yishai: "Let's create a situation in which one will not enter without the other" – they did not respond, according to him.

He is grateful to Meir Porush, who helped the settlers very much, "even when he was Minister of Construction and Housing, and later in all of his duties"; he is also grateful to the other representatives who assisted and helped, "I'm not casting blame on anyone, we just could not make a front of the various components.

"They admit that in all the Knesset votes I voted with them, maybe Aryeh Eldad not always, but all three other members in the National Union of then, voted with them one hundred percent!"

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!