The fact that Rav Aviner has something against women being out of their own house and doing anything in public is nothing new. I happen to agree with him this time, just on the latest, but for different a reason.
Earlier this week Rav Aviner made a statement in response to a question asked saying it is immodest for men to go to a shiur led by Sivan Rahav Meir. This was shortly after he said that a shul that allows a woman to give a shiur in it from the podium is not an Orthodox shul.
Today Rav Aviner said that Ayelet Shaked should not be let back to lead Habayit Hayehudi (Ichud Hayemin) and that politics is no place for women.
I happen to agree with him that Ayelet Shaked is not the right fit for leading Habayit Hayehudi, and should not be put in that position just because it is a convenient, and possibly available, platform and she is a dynamic and popular leader. Habayit Hayehudi is a religious party for the Dati Leumi sector and Shaked is not religious. That is not a good fit. Habayit Hayehudi has shown that it does not have aspirations to lead the general Israeli public or to include them in its ranks, but it wants to be the national religious party for national religious people. It can make do with Shaked in the party, as a bdieved, but she cannot represent them. She is more fitting for the Likud, or Bennett's Hayemin Hechadash party which is not explicitly religious, but not Habayit Hayehudi.
So, Shaked should not lead Habayit Hayehudi not because she is a woman but because she is not religious and that crowd does not want her as their leader. She does not represent them.
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