Several prominent rabbis identified with the Religious Zionist movement urged Bayit Yehudi to ensure that hareidi parties are included in the government now being formed. Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, one of the most important Religious Zionist rabbis in Samaria, and Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzefat and son of former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu z”tl, recommended strongly in a letter to Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett that he negotiate with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to include Shas and United Torah Jewry in the government.
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