According to Behadrei, Rav Dovid Yosef, member of the Council of Sages of Shas and rav of Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, paskened in his shiur that when people go to vote next week they should offer a prayer that Hashem should remove the evil from here and that they will do whatever possible to change the situation in Israel - all the bad and all the discrimination against anything connected to holiness.

The more interesting part of the psak is when he said next - the halacha requires us to vote Shas, as we are obligated to do so in order to protect our traditions, and as we daven with the nusach of the Sefardim we are obligated to vote for the nusach of the sefardim and not for the nusach sefardi of the Ashkenazim. And, any Sefardi who wants to vote for UTJ must perform an annulment of vows, hatarat nedarim - and Rav Yosef recommends that any rav approached to annul such a vow should refuse to do so. Any Sefardi bochur learning in an Ashkenazi yeshiva who feels he should vote UTJ because the rosh yeshiva said to and because of gratitude - there is no issue of voting out of gratitude regarding this and one does not need to listen to the rabbonim of the yeshiva..

It seems like a slippery slope to tell boys they dont need to listen to their rosh yeshiva or other rabbonim...

Chabad Chassidus will not take a position in the upcoming elections.. Chabad is beloved to all parts of the population..of course we have good relations and friendships with more than a few politicians, but is our apolitical position that causes Chabad to be so beloved. We cannot let Chabad be pulled with deception. "Miflaga is from the word "peleg" - division - and Chabad is beloved by all.

  -- Rav Yosef Ahronson, leading Chabad Rabbi

This is funny.. hattip to JHC

My problem with [Zehut] is that I do not know if this party is party of the right. They have one person that was thrown out of Shas, they have another that is against brit mila.. I need to see their party platform.

  -- Deputy Minister Yaakov Litzman

the Zehut platform has been available for anyone to read for a while now. They are not hiding it. If you "need to see the platform", go take a look at it...

The big shocking revelation of the day is that of Yediot. Their investigative reporters have discovered that the Likud, and specifically Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Netanyahu, have been running a network of thousands of online bots promoting and praising Netanyahu and the Likud, and attacking his political opponents. This is happening mostly via Twitter, but also in other social media platforms.

Welcome to the Internet, and welcome to 2019.

Such a major revelation having everyone up in a tizzy. As if all the other parties and politicians are not doing the same thing, just not as well...

This morning the Beresheet lunar module, continuing to make its way to the moon, performed another maneuver to adjust for a precise meetup with the atmosphere of the moon. This Thursday Beresheet is meant to meet up and start its orbit around the moon in preparation for the lunar landing. Yesterday Beresheet, in its final revolution around Earth, passed through the section closest to Earth, 1700km away. The engineers were able to take the above photograph from a distance of 16,000km over Earth. This picture, showing the Western Hemisphere and northeast Africa, also shows the rain clouds over Israel..

audio isnt great...

On March 12th, 2019, Koolulam came together with Link20 movement of the Ruderman Family Foundation at Menorah Stadium. 8,000 people sang ‘Shiro Shel Shafshaf’ with Stephane Legar to promote a message of accessibility and equality between people with and without disabilities. And this is what it looks like…