srael
Barak Courts
The Rabbis
Labor's head, with future elections in
mind, is careful not to antagonize
religious parties.
Jacobs knows the Orthodox world
well for he was raised in a religious
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home, studied at a yeshiva and has
observant parents and siblings (two
0 one has a chance to be
of whom are rabbis).
elected prime minister of
Moreover, he keeps in close con-
Israel without the support
tact with his relatives in the major
of the Orthodox, or, at
Orthodox population centers like the
least, a portion of the Orthodox.
Vishnitz quarter of Bnei Brak and
That is why Labor Party leader Ehud
the Mattersdorf section of
Barak recently appointed a key advis-
Jerusalem. They are on good terms
( er, 34-year-old Rehovot lawyer Yaron
with him despite the fact that —
:cobs, to be his liason man with the
while still consuming only kosher
,cbservant Jews that have become
political king-
food — he no
AP/Heidi Levin
longer follows
makers in the
all the rules
past two
\-1 -cades.
and regulations
/--
Jacobs has a
of Orthodoxy.
Barak him-
tough job, for
self tries to
Orthodox vot-
,, ,s, almost to a
avoid antago-
person, sup-
nizing the
/ported
Orthodox,
Netanyahu last
mainly by side-
time around.
stepping con-
troversial issues
But the rabbis
)o
lead
them
(as he did
/—
when he
are realists. If
Barak looks like
absented him-
self from the
he might be a
Knesset when
jnner,
and is
/-
there was a
easonably
preliminary
responsive to
vote on the
their demands,
Conversion
many of them
Law). And
will probably
while Labor
to terms
Knesset
with the former
Members like
Chief of Staff
Ofer Pines and
Meanwhile,
Yael Dayan
l it is Jacobs' job
Ehud Barak is sidestepping controversial issues
have led the
keep open
involving the Orthodox population.
struggle
lines of com-
against the
munication
closing of
with the
Jerusalem's Bar-Ilan Street on the
Orthodox and see to it that Barak
Sabbath, Barak has kept his opinions
pars well publicized visits to rabbis
to himself.
in mourning, drops into yeshivot
When Jacobs was asked what they
and makes himself available to jour-
were, he replied: "Barak was in favor
nalists from the religious media.
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