…… Only In Protecting The Torah World
Dovid Shapira, a close confidant of Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau, has been telling people in closed conversations in recent days that the Rosh Yeshiva is not part of the camp determined to oust Prime Minister Netanyahu, as Degel HaTorah weighs its options in the battle over the next government.
Shapira said that Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau “is not a member of the ‘Only Not Bibi’ cult.” He added, “He has no interest in moving Bibi. He has an interest in looking after the Torah world.”
Shapira, a grandson of Maran Hagaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman zt”l, has in recent years become one of the most influential figures behind the scenes of the Litvish leadership and a central player in Degel HaTorah’s decision-making, though he holds no official post in the Knesset or the government.
His remarks come as the change bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot has been courting the Chareidi parties, with contacts said to be underway between Degel HaTorah and the bloc. Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman recently removed the slogan “the end of the Netanyahu era and Chareidi rule” from his Facebook page, a move seen as a signal of a shift in his stance toward the Chareidim. Shas, for its part, has declared that on the instructions of its Moetzes Chachmei HaTorah it recommended Prime Minister Netanyahu to form the government, that it continues to support him, and that it is not negotiating with anyone else.
Meanwhile, Hagaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, who together with Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau leads the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, departed on Wednesday for the United States on a trip of chizuk and fundraising for the yeshiva’s mosdos. Before leaving, he came to Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau after Shacharis on Wednesday morning to receive a farewell bracha.
In the second part of the trip, Hagaon HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch is scheduled to travel to Los Angeles, where he will raise funds for the keren that helps support the yeshivos and kollelim in Eretz Yisrael.
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