Exclusive documentation: MK Gafni in discussion on leaving the Netanyahu bloc | Ari Kalman

United Torah Judaism chairman Moshe Gafni held a discussion with rabbis on the question of supporting the right-wing bloc or aligning with the left. Gafni said the preference is to go with the right, but questioned whether it is worth the price of harming the Haredi public. Exclusive documentation was brought in the central edition of i24NEWS.

United Torah Judaism party chairman Moshe Gafni held a discussion yesterday (Monday) with rabbis in which he prepares the groundwork for the possibility that the party will need to go with a "left-wing government." The Haredi affairs correspondent Ari Kalman brought tonight (Tuesday) in the central edition of i24NEWS documentation of Gafni from the discussion. In the discussion he held, Gafni presented the distinction that the preference is to go with a right-wing government - both due to closeness to tradition and religion, and because the opposition bloc expresses itself much against the Haredi public. Alongside this, Gafni presented the question of whether going with the right is worth the price of harming the Haredi public, the yeshiva students and the avreichim. The growing assessment among Haredim is that in a government not under Netanyahu it will be easier to regulate the matter. Gafni said in the discussion: "I see the left, I see their behavior - I see the right, with Yiddishkeit (Judaism) it is something completely different." One of those present in the discussion responds to Gafni: "Much better." To this Gafni answers: "The question is whether we need to invest so much with our children, with the boys, with the avreichim. How much we owe. It is not simple." The Haredi parties are expected to decide the question of the blocs on the day after the elections, following the official announcement of the dissolution of the right-wing bloc. But in practice, Netanyahu believes that at the moment of truth the Haredim will remain loyal to the right-wing bloc.