United Torah Judaism Launches Election Campaign With Catchy Song
Translated & summarized from Now 14 by baba
The United Torah Judaism party launched a new election campaign for the 26th Knesset elections, featuring a song focused on the conscription of yeshiva students and preserving the Haredi lifestyle. The campaign, led by MK Yaakov Asher, also highlights unity within the Haredi community and obedience to rabbinical leadership. This comes after veteran MKs Moshe Gafni, Uri Maklev, and Yisrael Eichler announced they would not run. The party also recently signed a surplus vote agreement with Shas.
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- United Torah Judaism launched a new election campaign with a song about yeshiva students' conscription.
- The campaign slogan is "We will cancel all decrees against the world of Torah and yeshiva students."
- Veteran MKs Moshe Gafni, Uri Maklev, and Yisrael Eichler will not run in the upcoming elections.
- Yaakov Asher is now leading the United Torah Judaism list.
- The party signed a surplus vote agreement with Shas for the elections.
The United Torah Judaism party has launched a new election campaign for the 26th Knesset elections, centered around a catchy song with the slogan "We will cancel all decrees against the world of Torah and yeshiva students." The campaign addresses the contentious issue of yeshiva students' conscription into the IDF and their status, promoting messages of unity, obedience to rabbinical leadership, and preservation of the Haredi way of life.
The song opens with the lyrics "The holy Torah is humiliated, and asks its creator," and calls for the cancellation of decrees "from all inhabitants of this land." It continues with a plea, "Woe, woe, dear children of Zion, in prison," before reiterating the campaign's central message: "We will cancel all decrees against the world of Torah and yeshiva students." The chorus incorporates the letters 'Gimmel' and 'Gimel,' associated with the party, alongside calls like "Who is for God, let him come to me," "Do not touch my anointed ones," and "On the home, united guardians," concluding with "The right to be Haredi."
A second part of the song emphasizes internal unity within the Haredi community, stating, "We are brothers, we have one Torah, we will not stray from our fathers' path, for they are our life." It also includes the call, "By the command of our rabbis, we will all do and hear," and "No one is missing from us, it is our right."
The song's tempo changes to address the obligation to obey rabbinical leadership: "On our right to be Haredi, on our duty to listen to the great ones." It also urges voters to "Vote, give honor to the Torah!" alongside "Torah will not be forgotten from Israel" and "Take counsel and it will be frustrated, for God is with us." A Yiddish phrase, "Rotzvet, Rotzvet" meaning "Save, Save," is directed at all of Israel, yeshiva students, and the Hasidic world.
The campaign launch follows significant changes in the party's public leadership. Member of Knesset Yaakov Asher now leads the list after veteran MKs Moshe Gafni, Uri Maklev, and Yisrael Eichler announced they would not run in the upcoming elections, as part of internal arrangements and under rabbinical guidance. In related news, United Torah Judaism and the Shas party signed a surplus vote agreement for the elections, allowing them to transfer excess votes between each other. Key issues for both parties include the status of yeshiva students and funding for Torah educational institutions.
