Ben Gvir fires back at the Haredi parties, revealing conversations with sector leaders

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sent a harsh letter to the leaders of the Haredi parties in response to a campaign against him, accusing them of political cynicism and distracting from their failures, and revealed that he possesses harsh statements by senior rabbis against Haredi politicians, which he chose not to publish.

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sent a harsh letter to the leaders of the Haredi parties, in response to a campaign launched against him. In the letter, published on Channel 14, Ben Gvir accused the Haredi parties of running a staged campaign intended to divert public criticism from their conduct in the last term. A central part of the letter reveals that Ben Gvir holds incriminating material against Haredi politicians, which he received from conversations with senior rabbis. According to him, the statements could have caused some senior Haredi figures to lock themselves in their homes, but he chose not to use them. Ben Gvir described that senior members of the Haredi parties approached him and asked that he not appeal to voters of Shas and United Torah Judaism in the election campaign, but rather focus on Haredim who do not vote or are considering voting for parties that will not pass the electoral threshold. He agreed to the request, he said, so as not to harm the right-wing bloc, and was surprised by the campaign against him. The article presents Ben Gvir as someone who refrains from exploiting sensitive information, while portraying the Haredi parties as harming their voters.