Jerusalem – Former Shas chairman Eli Yishai informed the party’s spiritual mentor Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Sunday night that he would not accept his offer to head the Shas education system El Hamaayan.
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Yosef asked Yishai to head El Hamaayan as a consolation prize after he decided to reinstate MK Arye Deri as Shas’ leader. But after Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein ruled Sunday that Yishai would have to quit the Knesset to head El Hamaayan, he decided to remain an MK.
Yishai is also expected to turn down a request from activists loyal to him to run in the October 22 race for mayor of Jerusalem.
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