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From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Shas sticks with supernatural campaign
The Shas campaign isn’t holding back. It’s pushing its greatest political asset, its followers spiritual world, to the hilt on Election Day.
We’ve already reported on the business-card-sized slips that purport to quote the party’s deceased founder and spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef promising that anyone who votes Shas is guaranteed entrance into heaven.
This afternoon, voters began reporting receiving text messages containing the following message:
Maran [our master] the Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: “I do not forgive anyone who does not vote Shas, neither in this world nor in the next.”
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