Degel HaTorah Launches Election Campaign: "We Need to Learn from the Change Bloc"
At a conference held at Kibbutz Hafetz Haim, MK Moshe Gafni referred for the first time to his removal from the leadership of the movement and said: "We listen to the Torah opinion." Yaakov Asher,…
Assessment
Degel HaTorah launched its election campaign with a pointed internal reckoning. MK Moshe Gafni addressed his removal from the party leadership for the first time, deferring to 'daas Torah.' New leader Yaakov Asher offered a strategic lesson from the rival 'change bloc': they hate each other but made a pact not to attack one another. The subtext is clear , Degel is trying to unify its own ranks while also taking shots at Ben Gvir and Smotrich, signaling a campaign that fights on two fronts: internal cohesion and external opposition.