Shas announced Monday that it had joined Mayor Nir Barkat’s coalition in the Jerusalem city council. With this Barkat succeeded in bringing all 30 council members into an unprecedented unified coalition.
Shas will receive a representative who will be second in charge to the Mayor and will also receive control of several of the city's services. Barkat said in response: “We will focus our energies on a concerted effort to save Jerusalem and not towards internal conflicts.”