As part of the ceremony with Yankelevitch, the school administration gave her a copy of her teacher's certificate she had qualified for as a student years earlier.
The visit upset MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ). In Gafni's opinion, only official Haredi MKs with the official stamp of approval are allowed to visit Haredi schools and perform publicity stunts with the Haredi schools in the backdrop.
Gafni sent a letter to the school administration expressing his shock at hearing that an MK from a secular party , whose goal is to hurt everything holy and valuable to the Jewish nation, visited, and was received with great honor by the school administration. Shameful, Gafni says. Also, Rav Sharansky zt"l would never have allowed such a thing.
It seems that Gafni is worried that despite the campaigns and the using Rav Chaim Kanievsky and other gedolim to ensure that everyone in the Haredi community votes only UTJ, still perhaps someone in the school might appreciate MK Yankelevitch's help, help that was not offered by the UTJ MKs, and get confused by her Haredi appearance and by calling herself Haredi and think Kachol Lavan is not so bad and is even a somewhat Haredi party and might vote for them, God forbid!
By the way, a simple search about the Sharansky school brings up a notice about a visit 3 years ago aid by then Minister of Education Naftali Bennett to the Sharansky school. With pictures. There was no mention of any protest from Gafni at the time. I guess nobody would confuse Bennett as Haredi and think he can be voted for.
sources; Behadrei and Kikar and Charedim.org
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