Quote of the Day

After denials for many months, the plan of Deri and Lieberman to try to take control of Jerusalem has been exposed by running Moshe Leon again as a candidate - a candidate who receives single digits in all the polls of the residents.

  -- Minister Zeev Elkin, candidate for mayor of Jerusalem, after Rav Shalom Cohen, spiritual leader of Shas, came to a deal to support Leon for mayor after initially expressing support for Yossi Deutsch.

Doesn't every candidate, and the party running and supporting that candidate, in every city with mayoral elections, plan to "take control of" the respective city? I am not sure what is different, or bad, by Deri and Lieberman having a plan to "take control of Jerusalem" by running a candidate they prefer..

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