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Deri: If Rabin were alive he’d vote for Shas, not Michaeli
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Aryeh Deri at a conference of Channel 13 News company in Jerusalem on July 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Shas leader Aryeh Deri claims that if slain former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were alive today he would vote for the ultra-Orthodox party and not his own Labor party, now headed by Merav Michaeli.
Deri takes a dig at Michaeli, who in recent days has accused right-wing leaders in Israel of being complicit in the incitement that led up to Rabin’s assassination in 1995.
“I knew Rabin,” Deri tells the Ynet news site. “Believe me, if he were alive he would vote for Shas, not Michaeli.”
Deri also vows that his party will not break from its right-wing religious bloc and partner with Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
Michaeli responds to Deri by accusing him of “embracing” the far-right.
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