Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Shas, predicted Wednesday that the faction would hold 18 to 20 seats in the next Knesset.

"Every one should bring ten people with him to vote Shas," the rabbi said. "Everyone should write ten names on a sheet of paper, convince them to vote Shas and submit the paper to the manager," the rabbi said. "Everybody should go to his friends, his neighbor, to his sister, one by one."