Earlier this week Rav Aviner made a statement in response to a question asked saying it is immodest for men to go to a shiur led by Sivan Rahav Meir. This was shortly after he said that a shul that allows a woman to give a shiur in it from the podium is not an Orthodox shul.
Today Rav Aviner said that Ayelet Shaked should not be let back to lead Habayit Hayehudi (Ichud Hayemin) and that politics is no place for women.
I happen to agree with him that Ayelet Shaked is not the right fit for leading Habayit Hayehudi, and should not be put in that position just because it is a convenient, and possibly available, platform and she is a dynamic and popular leader. Habayit Hayehudi is a religious party for the Dati Leumi sector and Shaked is not religious. That is not a good fit. Habayit Hayehudi has shown that it does not have aspirations to lead the general Israeli public or to include them in its ranks, but it wants to be the national religious party for national religious people. It can make do with Shaked in the party, as a bdieved, but she cannot represent them. She is more fitting for the Likud, or Bennett's Hayemin Hechadash party which is not explicitly religious, but not Habayit Hayehudi.
So, Shaked should not lead Habayit Hayehudi not because she is a woman but because she is not religious and that crowd does not want her as their leader. She does not represent them.
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There is no proposal to put Shaked in charge of the Habayit Hayehudi . The proposal is for Shaked to lead a technical block including multiple parties, one of which is the Habayit Hayehudi. It is suicidal for any party polling 7 or fewer seats to run outside of a technical block, and Shaked is the vote-getter. Respect for Rav Aviner -- he was rejecting something that was never proposed.
ReplyDeleteincorrect. there has been a lot of talk about Shaked possibly returning to Habayit Hayehudi and the debate has been whether she should be #1 or Rav Rafi Peretz should keep the #1 spot with her placed at 2. This has been one of the proposed and discussed options on the table for her
ReplyDeleteA whole bunch of chardali rabbis (including Aviner) already issued a statement that Shaked shouldn't run the party because she's not religious (they didn't use her name). That at least makes some sense, agree or disagree. Then Aviner issued his *own* statement that she doesn't belong there simply because she's a woman.
ReplyDeleteI suppose he'd be OK with Avraham Burg.
it looks like (not yet definite) they'll probably be forming their own female-free party to ensure more wasted votes but at least there wont be women involved.
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