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Article: Haredim are now on the 'winning side': They're beginning to overlap
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- Cleveland Jewish News
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- November 8, 1996
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Larry Derfner
Cleveland Jewish News
11-08-1996
Haredim are now on the `winning side': They're beginning to overlap with. right wing (national Orthodox), an idea once considered anathema.
LARRY DERFNER Israel Correspondent
-- Bnei Brak
Alarge sociological and political shift is taking place in Israel's religious world. The haredim (rigorously Orthodox), who used to be wholly separate and, in fact, hostile to the right wing, or national, Orthodox, are now beginning to overlap with them. The election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which the haredim played such a huge role in achieving, sealed their entry into Israel's "National Camp."
The evidence could be seen outside Giborei Yisrael, the ...