So, in Aryeh Deri's attempt to muster a majority in yesterday's scheduled vote on the minimarket law, with the opposition MKs refusing to offset the two important missing votes, Deri admits he did something heinous, though he does not call it that.
Deri was desperately short on votes, so he looked into the possibility of making Yehuda Glick come to the Knesset to vote on the bill - while sitting shiva, just a few short hours after the funeral of his wife. Deri spoke to the rabbi of Glick's community (Otniel) and other rabbis to see what he could do to get Glick out. As well, he had people contact Glick, it seems, during the funeral, to try to persuade him to go to the Knesset afterwards for the vote.
To remind you, nothing worked out so the coalition postponed the vote on this law proposal.
Today Deri apologized for having possibly hurt Glick in is attempts to get enough votes for the law.
Ironically, Aryeh Deir and other coalition MKs called the behavior of the opposition MKs "inhumane" for refusing to offset Glick's vote. It turns out, this inhumane behavior is standard for the Knesset and Deri and other coalition MKs suffer from prioritizing his agenda over consideration for people's personal affairs and issues and inhumane behavior is just part of the process for them all.
I guess we should have known that already about Aryeh Deri when he took advantage of people's love for, and connection to, Rav Ovadia Yosef and portrayed himself as crying over the terrible loss by rubbing an onion over his eyes.
It is all just par for the course. The pot calling the kettle black.
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