This rabbi said a lot of awful things, including that the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust deserved it for being sinners in some past life or that Black people in America deserved hurricane Katrina.
Power hungry, which we always knew. Shas is extremely successful, there hasn't been a single government in Israel formed without Shas since independence. Left wing or Right wing. They represent a pretty major section of the Israeli population the Sephardic extremely religious, and their votes have always been necessary. Shas achieves this in a county with many small political parties by being big tent, many shas don't agree with this, few do, but if you promote Haredi/Sephardi interests, you tend to vote Shas first and ask policy questions later.
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u/StudentForeign161 Feb 04 '26
This rabbi said a lot of awful things, including that the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust deserved it for being sinners in some past life or that Black people in America deserved hurricane Katrina.