Deri is probably right that that would have happened had the meeting taken place.
Deri should have also considered that Shas promoting Netanyahu in nearly all their campaign advertisements might also do that (there were reports yesterday that Netanyahu has benefited the most from those Shas ads, far more than Shas has and Shas is now going to change campaign strategy because of it)...Deri already showed he controls Netanyahu (somewhat) and the government when he successfully vetoed a deal between Netanyahu, Habayit Hayehudi and Eli Yishai that had nothing to do with Shas. Now he is showing that he also controls the gedolim - not just the sefardi gedolim but also the Ashkenazi gedolim.
Aryeh Deri gets to decide who gets in to Rav Chaim Kanievsky for a bracha and who does not? Let Rav Chaim decide that - he is pretty smart and savvy and would know how such a picture could be used and he can decide to allow it or not.
Assuming Rav Chaim Kanievsky's brachas help, withholding that bracha from Netanyahu could also be a disaster for the Haredi parties who have thrown their lot in with Netanyahu. If he does not win, the Haredi parties will be in a bind for a while.
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[P]ictures of Netanyahu getting a bracha from Rav Chaim Kanievsky would only increase Haredi support for Netanyahu and help him take voters away from the Haredi parties and cause them to vote Likud.
ReplyDeleteReally? Someone is going to change his vote from a Charedi party to Likud, just because Netanyahu got his picture taken with a gadol? Count me dubious.
I always understood that Charedim vote for who their leaders tell them to, not who gets a picture and a brachah.
R. Chaim Kanievsky gives out lots of brachas, and I don't think any of the recipients are going to get many Charedi votes.
i'm not really sure but a picture is worth a thousand words. the picture can be used to show that rav chaim thinks netanyahu is ok. add to that the UTJ and shas people telling everyone we support netanyahu, and anyone looking to vote for [an excuse or justification to vote for] another party could use that picture in this way
ReplyDeleteDid Deri say "No bracha" or "No picture"?
ReplyDeleteaccording to the article, and the original in the mishpacha which I have now read, he vetoed the entire visit as he was worried about a picture. however, the offic eof Netanyahu ad also called rav chaim earlier in the week in advance of rav chaim's visit to meron and asked that rav chaim daven for him in meron. I guess Netanyahu will be zoche to a shidduch now
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