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The upcoming municipal elections have heightened frictions within ultra-Orthodox parties and between them.
“I have a hard time believing that we’ll be able to heal the enormous rift caused by the municipal election. The final split is taking giant steps forward,” one ultra-Orthodox Knesset member told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity. According to him, “The ultra-Orthodox Big Bang,” the split of the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox party Yahadut HaTorah, could happen any minute. Furthermore, closer cooperation between the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Shas Party and the Lithuanian Degel HaTorah faction of Yahadut HaTorah could lead to a future merger of those two groups into a single party or some other format.
