Shas says Blue and White seeks to destroy Israel as a Jewish state

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party says the Blue and White party’s newly released party platform seeks “to destroy the Jewish state.”

Shas says the party led by Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid “has copy-pasted the platform of [Lapid’s] Yesh Atid,” and seeks to “trample the honor of Shabbat by running public transportation and making it into a national shopping day,” to harm “the sanctity of marriage” and to “desecrate the Western Wall by allowing Reform movements to enter.”

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a faction meeting of his Shas party at the Knesset on December 31, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

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