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Shas and UTJ Sign Surplus-Vote Pact for Oct. 27

By Drooid · Oct 11, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC · How we work

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Shas and United Torah Judaism signed a surplus-vote pact for the Oct 27 election.
Arye Deri and Yaakov Asher said the pact follows rabbis’ directives.
Both parties poll around eight seats, above the 3.25 % threshold, and could gain an extra seat from pooled surplus votes.
UTJ candidate Moshe Rosenthal says the party will join a government only if yeshiva draft exemptions remain.

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Shas and United Torah Judaism signed a surplus-vote pact for the Oct 27 election.
Arye Deri and Yaakov Asher said the pact follows rabbis’ directives.
Both parties poll around eight seats, above the 3.25 % threshold, and could gain an extra seat from pooled surplus votes.
UTJ candidate Moshe Rosenthal says the party will join a government only if yeshiva draft exemptions remain.