I would like to be the first Haredi female MK in United Torah Judaism. I know that at some point it will happen, and when it does I will be there...
-- Rivka Ravitz, Chief of Staff of outgoing President Reuven Rivlin
wishful thinking or prescient?
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You know her history, right?
ReplyDeleteI dont know what you are referring to, so I am not sure. What is her history?
DeleteShe's the daughter-in-law of Avraham Ravitz (and, not coincidentally, the wife of the former deputy mayor of Beitar and the current mayor of Telz Stone) which makes her more connected and untouchable in the charedi world than any woman, and pretty much all men.
Delete(As always, "successful charedi woman" comes with one or more of a set of qualifiers- Chabad, ba'alat teshuva or the like, American descent, connections. In this case, it's American *and* connections.)
Her chances of actually being a UTJ MK are still exactly zero, but if any woman ever had a chance, it would be her, but not because of anything intrinsic to herself.
(Her rise began when her father-in-law hired her as his assistant, a common enough tactic around the world. A few years later hiring family became illegal in the Knesset, so all the MKs swapped assistants so their family members could keep their jobs, nudge nudge. Ravitz switched with Rivlin, and she followed Rivlin to the top. Yes, I'm cynical. Sue me.)
yes, so I am familiar with that. and despite all that she is highly qualified. If I am not mistaken I read she is completing her studies and work for a phd. Despite that, you are correct. she has the "in" that nobody else does.
DeleteNo doubt she's qualified, but I think a lot of that was on-the-job training.
DeleteWhich is what most working people do, come to think. When I was sworn in to the Bar, the presiding judge said to us, "Nothing you learned until this point matters any more."