Shas and Yahadut Hatorah: the role of women here – is different

Women's organizations petitioned the filing lists to the Central Elections Committee to disqualify the ultra-Orthodox parties - Shas and Yahadut Hatorah - from participating in elections because of what they call "exclusion of women" within their ranks.


Tomorrow (Wednesday) will be the election petition committee hearings, and today the ultra-Orthodox parties filed responses by lawyers Moshe Morgenstern and Nadav Asahel.

"The parties operate, according to the law, with clear separation between men and women - for reasons of modesty. Men have their roles, and women have a different role. There is no exclusion of women in this distribution, discrimination against women, or to argue that women are less than men."

According to the parties, on the contrary, an attempt to prevent these parties from running in accordance with the law - is a blow to democracy. "Can a political party that wishes to follow the boundaries of Jewish law not be elected in a democratic country?" Is such a claim clearly not anti - democratic? Respondents also operate according to the Jewish law and therefore their representatives to the Knesset are men, since this approach is not acceptable for some people, they should not vote for us."

Orthodox parties say that ironically a chunk of orthodox women will abstain from voting for them if they integrate women on their lists. "Many of the women voters will refuse to vote if there will be a list of women, as opposed to Jewish law. Is to satisfy their hunger by asking us to prevent many women's right to vote for candidate parties that follow the Jewish law?"

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!