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KOSHER-To-GO

Ron Colasanti,

Lieberman, was initially founded to
represent Russian-Jewish immigrants
but has expanded to other Israelis.
The party is focused on security
and asserts that the core goal of the
Palestinians is not the achievement
of peace through negotiations but the
complete destruction of the Jewish
state. Lieberman has criticized Jewish
Home's annexation platform, saying
that such an action would increase the
Palestinian population in Israel and
strip the country of its Jewish identity.

Shas
Shas (a Hebrew acronym that roughly
translates to "Sephardic Torah
Guardians Movement") is an Orthodox
religious political party that caters pri-
marily to Sephardic Jews.
In February, Shas leader Aryeh
Deri, who has been battling corrup-
tion allegations, said he would sup-
port Netanyahu's re-election as prime
minister if Netanyahu agreed to "a
minimum wage of 30 shekels, lower-
ing VAT on basic commodities and
taxing the rich:'

United Torah Judaism
United Torah Judaism is a political
alliance between two haredi parties,
Degel HaTorah (the Flag of the Torah)
and Agudat Israel (Israeli Union). The
alliance is non-Zionist and accepts
only deputy minister positions in the
Israeli government. Its primary agenda
is to promote the interests of the hare-
di community in Israel. The alliance is
currently led by Yaakov Litzman, who
recently said his party does not have
a preference between a new govern-
ment led by Netanyahu or Herzog. At
the same time, Litzman said United
Torah will specifically decline to join
a government led by Yesh Atid due to
Lapid's championing of mandatory
haredi enlistment in the IDF.

Yachad — Ha'am Harm
(Together — The People Are
With Us)
This new religious party, formed by
former Shas chairman Eli Yishai, aims
to honor the legacy of former Shas
leader and Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef. The party is running on
a joint ticket with the far-right Otzma
Yehudit party, led by Baruch Marzel,
who was initially banned from the
election by Israel's Central Elections
Committee before the ban was over-
turned by Israel's Supreme Court.
Yishai and Marzel have expressed
their desire to protect the Jewish char-
acter of Israel and their opposition to a
Palestinian state.

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Kulanu (All of Us)

This new political party, led by for-
mer Israeli communications minister
and Likud member Moshe Kahlon,
is primarily focused on economic
issues. The party wants to reduce
economic class gaps and reduce the
cost of living. Kulanu promotes entre-
preneurship and economic freedom,
but opposes monopolies and cartels
that stifle competition — in line
with Kahlon's own claim to fame of
breaking Israel's telecommunications
monopoly, which dramatically lowered
Israelis' cell-phone bills.
On the Israeli-Palestinian front,
Kahlon said at the Feb. 26 debate that
while he supports an agreement with
the Palestinians, "there are lines I
won't cross, like dividing Jerusalem or
giving up the Jordan Valley:'

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Meretz (Vigor)
This left-wing party, chaired by
Zehava Gal-On, supports a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian con-
flict and focuses heavily on social jus-
tice. Gal-On castigated Jewish Home's
Bennett during the Feb. 26 debate for
his failure to champion the rights of
gays and Arabs.

Joint Arab List
For the first time, the Knesset's Arab
parties have joined forces, forming an
alliance chaired by Ayman Odeh. A
new law requiring an electoral thresh-
old of 3.25 percent of total votes cast
to qualify for Knesset representation
drove the three Arab parties, which
claim to represent 20 percent of the
Israeli population, to unite in the
name of "Peace, Equality, Democracy:'
The alliance's Arab parties have
been criticized for opposing the Jewish
character of Israel, allegedly support-
ing Palestinian terrorism and sympa-
thizing for Hamas. In particular, MK
Hanin Zoabi of the Balad party has
said the Hamas members who kid-
napped and killed three Jewish teenag-
ers in Gush Etzion last summer were
"not terrorists:' Like Marzel, Zoabi
was initially banned from the Knesset
election, but later got reinstated by the
Supreme Court.

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Glazed Root Vegetables

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Potato Kugel

$18.00

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Mashed Sweet Potatoes

$11.50

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4

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