Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Shas has stormed back, jumping from nine to 11 seats in the elections
A man walks into an Israeli polling station, takes a blue envelope, and heads behind the partition. With his jeans, polo shirt, and bare head, he could be any secular, middle-class Israeli, but his darker skin hints to a Sephardic background.
His fingers hover over the white voting slips. “Shas” reads one, but the man continues as if unsure, glancing first at the “Machal” of the Likud, and “Tes” of Itamar Ben Gvir.
He rubs the back of his head, and raises his hand to his face, thinking, before stretching out to grab the Ben Gvir option.
Suddenly music plays and a spectral apparition of Rav Ovadiah Yosef appears. Shocked, the man blurts out, “Kevod Harav!”
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