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Jerusalem Mayoral Elections 2018

By Erik Zimerman On November 13, 2018 · 1 Comment · In Against the Wind, Avvisi, Joab's Men

(Hebrew Below) Jerusalem, unite together to stop Ofer Berkowitz in today’s election runoff. The barrage of missiles today should help remind us who our enemies are, and not to chose to follow those that would divide our ancient people, so that we may never a house divided fall. Just as you would find disgusting an ideology to make it impossible by law for a mizrahi to live in an ashkenazi neighborhood, so should #Hitorerut ‘s divisive policies be an outrage. If any other western country segregated Jews by measuring how many mitsvahs they keep, we would all scream foul, and yet we support this segregation in our eternal capital in the single Jewish state?! Ofer is a young man who has been told to lead all his life.. go to the army, be an officer, then get into local politics.. lead lead lead, and that’s all very good and well, but he has never asked himself where he ought to lead us to. Leaders must know the right direction before they can lead others towards it. His foundation is non existent, his ideology baseless and hateful. All of his ideas are childish, extremist in their communism (even for Israel!), naive, and stand [...]

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Jerusalem 2018 Elections & Some Other Thoughts

By Erik Zimerman On October 30, 2018 · Add Comment · In Against the Wind, Avvisi, Joab's Men

A few short hours separate us from the start of municipal elections across Israel. As always, the outcome of the election in Jerusalem is of supreme importance, not only for our ancient and holy capital, but for Israel and even the Western World at large. First let us remember what happened last election. It was a clear race between Nir Barkat (the current mayor, who chose not to run again for a third term since) and Moshe Lion. Lion was a successful accountant from Givataym (Tel-Aviv area), and was not very well familiar with nor prepared for the intricacies of a mayoral election in Jerusalem (not to mention an actual administration). He was “drafted” by current Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s group to support a right-wing municipal administration in our capital. The strategy was pretty plain and simple. Lion was Sefaradi, like the majority of Jersualem’s population, and observant, also like the majority of Jerusalem. Lion has close ties with many Likud and Ysrael Beiteinu power-brokers (the Likud itself was a client of Lion’s accounting firm in the 90’s), and seemed to everyone as good as a Mizrahi candidate as any other. Nir Barkat was neither observant nor Sefaradi, and the [...]

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