After months of anger and tension between political rivals Eli Yishai and Aryeh Deri, Yishai has offered Deri the opportunity to cooperate together following Tuesday's election.
The former Shas chairman left the party in December - with the announcement of elections in March - and founded his own party, Yachad-Ha'am Itanu.
Current Shas leader, Deri, did not take kindly to the news, attacking Yishai on several occasions, and battle for the haredi Mizrahi community ensued.
Yishai himself has threatened recently to release video clips that would cause his former party severe damage, and, according to him, ensure they do not pass the Knesset threshold.
And yet on Monday, Yishai sent Deri, as well as Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, and United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush, an open letter in which he offers to work together post-elections.
"My eyes are looking toward the day after the election, a time when we will all join together and combine arms to fight against the edicts handed down on the world of Torah and Judaism. We will pass laws for the benefit of hungry families and help the weak members of society," Yishai wrote to Deri.
He continued by calling on Deri to join forces and unite with him just before Israel greets elections.
"It is not the time for war. Everyone will vote according to his rabbi, but we must remember that the day after the election, we will need every finger in the Knesset," Yishai stressed, implicitly noting Shas' importance in forming a right-wing coalition.
"We can't change the struggles [we experienced] before the election, rather the number of representatives that will lift their hands to fight against these [anti-haredi] decrees."
"Then all of us will stand, the parties representing the Torah observant and God-fearing public, and we will be like one strong fist against them."