Netanyahu tried to reach out directly to Haredi rabbis and was refused

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to reach out directly to the Haredi rabbis, in an attempt to bypass the Haredi Knesset members and prevent the Haredi parties from joining a government led by Gadi Eisenkot. The approach was met with refusal.

Netanyahu asked to speak directly with rabbis Landau and Hirsch and with a senior rabbi in Shas, but was met with refusal. The entourage of Rabbi David Landau and Rabbi Moshe Hirsch announced that they were not interested in such a conversation.

At the same time, right-wing activists are running an aggressive campaign on the Haredi street against joining a government they call a "left-wing government." A source in the Haredi parties described the pressure applied by the Prime Minister's Office in one word: "tralala."