Shas register its party slate for September’s election ahead of tonight’s deadline.
The ultra-Orthodox party, which won eight seats in April’s vote, presented the exact same top-10 list as last time but added two new representatives in spots 11 and 12 — Baruch Gezhai and Yossi Tayeb, representing the Israeli Ethiopian and French immigrant communities, respectively.
After presenting the slate, number five on the list MK Yoav Ben-Tzur tells reporters that Shas’s “varied and widely representative list” will do just as well as it did in April, if not better.
Shas MK Yoav Ben-Tzur speaking to reporters at the Knesset on August 1, 2019, after filing his party forms ahead of the elections. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)
“We are not trying to match what we got, we are trying to better it. And we think we can and we will,” Ben Tzur says.
Asked if the party would agree to sit in a government headed by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, Ben Tzur says “i’ts not even a relevant question as it’s not going to happen.”
— Raoul Wootliff
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