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Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, but
it also attracts the "traditional"
Sephardim in the poor, isolated
development towns and urban
slums. It plays heavily on the
theme of ethnic resentment, of-
fering Sephardi pride to people
who feel they have been treat-
ed badly by Israel's Ashkenazi
establishment especially in the
yeshiva world.
"Rav Ovadia made me see
that I could hold my head up as
a Sephardi," said Yossi Sis, who
lives with his Iraqi parents in
the Bukharan Quarter. "When
I studied at an Ashkenazi yeshi-
va, I used to go to sleep crying.
The teachers didn't think I could
learn; the boys used to call me
cFrenc' (an anti-Sephardi slur)."
This is not imagined dis-
crimination; two of Israel's lead-
ing authorities on the Orthodox,
Profs. Menachem Friedman and
Eliezer Don-Yehiya of Bar-Ilan
University, have said many
Ashkenazi religious elders have
traditionally seen the Sephar-
/ dim as a lesser breed. There
have been numerous docu-
mented cases of Ashkenazi
yeshivas setting quotas on
Sephardi students, and Ortho-
dox Ashkenazi families are gen-
erally loathe to see their
children marry Sephardim.
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But the Sephardim are get-
, ting theirs back — Rabbi Yosef
is their champion, unsurpassed
as a Torah scholar, and Shas is
now by far the largest, most
powerful Orthodox party in the
country. At the party's revivals
during the High Holy Days,
thousands of followers turn out
to kiss the hand of Rabbi Yosef
and other prominent Shas rab-
bis and politicians, and cheer as
they rip into the kibbutzim, the
press, the left-wingers, the
whole range of their secular,
Ashkenazi oppressors of old.
Some party leaders have said
that if the West Bank settlers
return to Rabbi Yosefs house,
they will be met with not hun-
dreds, but thousands of out-
raged Shas youth. Furthermore,
Mr. Deri has said that if the gov-
ernment ever makes an actual
move to give up territory, he will
have difficulty remaining in the
coalition.
And, lurking behind all these
troubles, there is Mr. Deri's le-
gal predicament. For three
years he has been under inves-
tigation for embezzling hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars in
government funds, and justice
officials say that in the near fu-
ture, he will be charged. At that
point, the Rabin coalition will
have to decide whether to shield
him from prosecution, or turn
him out — again, at the risk of
seeing the government fall.
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