דרעי לא מסוגל לשאת את ההשפלה שיהדות התורה עקפה את ש״ס במנדטים - אבי בלום

So I hear from one of the Shas Knesset members, for the first time Shas received fewer votes than United Torah Judaism by a huge margin, about 75,000 votes. And not only among the traditional public, where, as Eli said, they blame him for not helping with the draft, but also in the Haredi public, where they see him as someone who promoted the draft, part of Shas’s base that is even in the Jerusalem Faction’s territory. Now, I heard from Deri on election eve, he kind of smelled where this was going, he wouldn't even agree in closed-door talks to commit to double digits. He understood, he said: Listen, in '96 and with Shas with six seats we were kingmakers and with 17 seats in '99 we were thrown out of the Barak government . But here there is a situation that I would compare more to Bibi in 2006. This is Aryeh Deri's moment of greatest crisis, when his movement is almost crashing, losing astronomical numbers and quantities. >> Wait, you said Bibi 2006, since then his takeoff has been inconceivable. >> So I'm saying that if there's someone who knows how to reinvent himself, it's Aryeh Deri, we are already seeing the process of how he makes the rabbis chase after him to stay. >> Yes. >> That is something he knows how to do, it's not for nothing that he has been in politics for 40 years. >> Where did the votes actually go, just briefly to know? >> The votes went to Otzma Yehudit, Bibi drank from Otzma Yehudit and Ben Gvir drank from them, he echoed videos of Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef against the draft, he echoed Aryeh Deri's words, he had a very easy job, the materials this time were provided by the Shasniks. >> Okay, what a thing.