Likud MK Yehuda Glick says Interior Minister Aryeh Deri’s attempts to get him to come vote for a bill hours after the funeral of his wife were “out of place” and “uncalled for.”
Glick’s wife Yaffa, 51, died last week after a six-month coma following a severe stroke.
The MK tells Hadashot news that “two hours after the burial” last week his assistants told him the Shas party leader was trying to get him to go to the Knesset to help the coalition secure a majority in the controversial bill to shutter convenience stores on Shabbat.
“Aryeh said ‘it would be Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of God’s name) for you to sit shiva (the Jewish mourning period) at the Knesset,’” Glick recounts.
“I didn’t take it seriously, it was so out of place,” Glick says. “It was so uncalled-for that I didn’t react to it. I was shattered to pieces at the time. Did he really think…I would spend the entire night there?”
Glick said he was not angry or upset, though he notes that Deri had not apologized or spoken to him since the incident.
MK Yehudah Glick (Likud) eulogizes his wife Yaffa, at her funeral at Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuhot cemetery on January 1, 2018 (screen capture: Facebook)
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