{"id":1005,"date":"2006-03-27T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T13:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/why-not-to-vote-for-national-unionmafdal-among-other-things\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T13:24:52","slug":"why-not-to-vote-for-national-unionmafdal-among-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/27\/why-not-to-vote-for-national-unionmafdal-among-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Why NOT to Vote for National Union\/Mafdal [Among Other Things] &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/NU-NRPCampaign.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=100880\"><strong>MK Eitam Congratulates IDF Chief-of-Staff on Chief Rabbi Appointment<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Full Text;<\/p>\n<p>MK Effi Eitam (National Union &#8211; NRP) has congratulated IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.Gen. Dan Halutz on his selection of Avichai Ronsky, head of the yeshiva in the Samarian community of Itamar, as the next Chief Rabbi of the IDF.<\/p>\n<p>Eitam said, &#8220;Ronsky was a commander in the IDF and knows first hand the challenges the army faces in the battlefield.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1139395685119&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull \"><strong>Reason #1;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Ronsky, 54, a resident of Itamar, is the author of three books of responsa on halachic issues pertinent to the religious soldier. <em>He has a lenient halachic position regarding allowing the desecration of the Shabbat for military needs. This position, which has been criticized by other rabbis, may make him more attractive to IDF commanders<\/em> who want a minimum of religious restrictions on their soldiers.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=100875\"><strong>Reason #2;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Rabbi Ronsky was <em>adamantly against refusal of orders during the Disengagement and expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and Northern Shomron<\/em> last summer.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MK Eitam Congratulates IDF Chief-of-Staff on Chief Rabbi Appointment Full Text; MK Effi Eitam (National Union &#8211; NRP) has congratulated IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.Gen. Dan Halutz on his selection of Avichai Ronsky, head of the yeshiva in the Samarian community of Itamar, as the next Chief Rabbi of the IDF. Eitam said, &#8220;Ronsky was a commander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}