End to the crisis first reported on i24NEWS: Gur Hasidic sect will publish a call tomorrow to vote for "United Torah Judaism"

The Gur Hasidic sect, the largest in United Torah Judaism, whose power is estimated at about one mandate, will publish a call tomorrow to vote for United Torah Judaism, thus ending a crisis first reported on i24NEWS. The background to the conflict is a last-minute split in the Hasidic party Agudat Yisrael.

The Gur Hasidic sect, the largest in United Torah Judaism, whose power is estimated at about one mandate, will publish a call tomorrow (Sunday) to vote for United Torah Judaism, thus ending a crisis first reported on i24NEWS. The background to the conflict is a last-minute split in the Hasidic party Agudat Yisrael, in which representatives Meir Porush and Elikim Shtark from the Belz Hasidic sect split off in a technical move and established a new party under the United Torah Judaism list. This means that the Gur representative, Yitzhak Goldknopf, who is placed second on the list, will become a one-man faction in the next term, which could affect the distribution of roles after the elections. Senior members of the Gur Hasidic sect demand that the matter of roles be closed before the elections, otherwise the sect will not publish an instruction to vote for United Torah Judaism, and will quietly pass an instruction to vote for the 'Tzav Shachor' party, which advocates a blanket exemption from IDF conscription.

End to the crisis first reported on i24NEWS: Gur Hasidic sect will publish a call tomorrow to vote for "United Torah Judaism"