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Jul 14, 2019

Rav Tau. The New Normal.

Rav Tau, of Har Hamor, has threatened to break off from the United Right party and form his own party. The threat has been waged to prevent the United Right from forming a union with the New Right party of Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked. According to Rav Tau, Bennett is not religious enough and Shaked is a secular woman, and the two should not be associated with the United Right,a party meant to represent the National Religious, and definitely not to head the party.

While the threat is still just a threat, Rav Tau has moved forward with preparations for realizing the formation and running of such a party. A political party is being organized with personalities being chosen to run it. Now a name, slogan and logo have also been chosen (source: Srugim). The name will be "Noam", the slogan will be "a normal nation in our land", and the logo is:





I am not sure what the party name Noam means or refers to, but perhaps it is for the phrase" deracheha darchei noam" - the ways of the Torah are pleasantness.

I have no idea what " a normal nation in our land means". Rav Tau is the head of the relatively extreme edge of the National Religious - even more than the "chardal". They are closer in their personal lifestyles to the Haredi public than to the National Religious, but they believe in and support the State. "Normal" is not something I understand in the context of Rav Tau. Suddenly he wants Israel to be a normal nation, like all the other nations? While he just recently spoke out against a woman leading the national religious party? Perhaps he is expecting that whatever he is proposing, or how he wants Israeli society to be, will become the new normal.

Regardless of whether or not they have a chance to get in, they are resigned to running, if their demands are not met, and insist they will get in either this time or next. They are working for the betterment of Israel, so the possibility of causing votes to be wasted (should they not get in) does not concern them. source: Makor Rishon




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2 comments:

  1. Normal means "not gay." I'm being serious.

    He'll get a thousand votes, and then we'll see how powerful he is.

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  2. from the two videos they have put out so far it seems like it. what is strange is that they think this is such a major issue and that so many people consider this their main concern that they can book their entire campaign on it..
    the one thing that makes sense is that they are not really planning to run to the end but looking to maneuver by making enough noise to be granted a high spot in a merger or technical bloc with the United Right party (assuming they dont let Ayelet Shaked back in)

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