Deri blows shofar at rabbi’s grave to kick off electioneering

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri and his band of Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox men have started off voting day with a visit to the Jerusalem grave of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the late spiritual leader of the party.

Deri blows a shofar, traditional for the days ahead of the Jewish New Year, and vows that “today we stop this ‘secular government,’ and safeguard the Jewish State on the path of [Rabbi Yosef].”

Shas leader Aryeh Deri, second right, blows a shofar at the grave of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef on September 17, 2019. (Yaakov Cohen/Shas)

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