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'{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox political party | name = Degel HaTorah | native_name = {{Script/Hebrew|דגל התורה}} | logo = Degel HaTorah logo.png | logo_size = 110px | colorcode = #000000 | leader = [[Moshe Gafni]] | chairman = | president = | secretary_general = | spokesperson = | leader1_title = | leader1_name = | leader2_title = | leader2_name = | leader3_title = | leader3_name = | founded = 1988 | dissolved = | merger = | split = [[Agudat Yisrael]] | merged = | headquarters = | newspaper = ''[[Yated Ne'eman (Israel)|Yated Ne'eman]]'' | youth_wing = | wing1_title = | wing1 = | wing2_title = | wing2 = | wing3_title = | wing3 = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = {{hlist|[[Torah Judaism|Torah]], [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]], and [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] ([[Misnagdim]]) Jewish interests<ref name=bbc>{{cite news |title=Guide to Israel's political parties |date=21 January 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21073450 |work=BBC News |access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=washpost>{{cite news |author=Ishaan Tharoor |date=14 March 2015 |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/03/13/these-are-the-political-parties-battling-for-israels-future/ |title=A guide to the political parties battling for Israel's future |access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><br>[[Conservatism#Religious conservatism|Religious conservatism]]<br>[[Social conservatism]]}} | position = [[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]] | religion = [[Haredi Judaism]] ([[Misnagdim]]) | national = | international = | europarl = | affiliation1_title = Alliance | affiliation1 = [[United Torah Judaism]] | colors = | seats1_title = [[Knesset]] | seats1 = {{Composition bar|3|120|hex=#000000}} | symbol = {{Script/Hebrew|ג}} | website = http://m.degel.org.il/ | country = Israel }} '''Degel HaTorah''' ({{lang-he|דגל התורה||Banner of the [[Torah]]}}) is an [[Ashkenazi Jews|Ashkenazi]] [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] [[List of political parties in Israel|political party]] in [[Israel]]. For much of its existence, it has been allied with [[Agudat Yisrael]] under the name [[United Torah Judaism]]. == History == Degel HaTorah was founded in 1988 as a splinter from Agudat Israel.<ref>{{cite news |author=Matthew Wagner |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Degel-Hatorah-kicks-off-election-campaign |title=Degel Hatorah kicks off election campaign |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=14 December 2005 |access-date=17 June 2015}}</ref> Its establishment by Rabbi [[Elazar Shach]] was due to ongoing policy disputes with the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] [[rabbi]]s within Agudat Yisrael. In the [[1988 Israeli legislative election|1988 elections]], the party won two seats, taken by [[Moshe Gafni]] and [[Avraham Ravitz]], and joined [[Yitzhak Shamir]]'s coalition government. For the [[1992 Israeli legislative election|1992 elections]], the party allied itself with Agudat Yisrael under the name United Torah Judaism. Although the party split shortly before the [[1996 Israeli legislative election|1996 elections]], they re-united for the elections. This was repeated for the [[1999 Israeli legislative election|1999]], [[2006 Israeli legislative election|2006]], and [[2009 Israeli legislative election|2009 elections]]. Currently, the party has three [[Member of Knesset|MK]]s (of the seven representing United Torah Judaism): [[Moshe Gafni]], [[Ya'akov Asher]] and [[Yitzhak Pindros]]. == Ideology == [[File:PikiWiki Israel 9440 harav-shach.jpg|thumb|left|A Degel HaTorah gathering. (L-R) Rabbis Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz, [[Chaim Kanievsky]], [[Yosef Shalom Elyashiv]], [[Elazar Shach]]]] Degel HaTorah represents the "[[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian]] wing" of the non-Hasidic Haredim (known by some as "[[Mitnagdim]]"), as opposed to the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]]-dominated [[Agudat Yisrael]] party. Sometimes, the parties compete against each other; at other times, they join forces within a political alliance called [[United Torah Judaism]] (UTJ) (''Yahadut HaTorah'' in Hebrew). In Jerusalem, it was based on a long-standing argument against a 1989 agreement between Degel HaTorah's then-spiritual leader, [[Elazar Shach|Rabbi Elazar Shach]], the venerated [[Rosh yeshiva]] of the famed [[Ponevezh Yeshiva]] in [[Bnei Brak]], and the spiritual leader of Agudat Yisrael, the [[Pnei Menachem]] of [[Gur (Hasidic dynasty)|Gur]], Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter. The deal, based on the demographics of the time, stated that when UTJ would join forces, Aguda would receive 60% of the seats, and Degel 40%. This agreement was first contested in May 2016, when Degel's [[Knesset]] leader, [[Moshe Gafni]], demanded that the Deputy Education Minister, [[Meir Porush]], resign from the Knesset, in order to give Degel 3 out of the 6 seats held by UTJ. Porush was able to keep his ministerial position, under the 2015 so-called [[Norwegian Law (Israel)|Norwegian Law]]. In 2018, Degel reached a 50-50 agreement with Aguda, with an Aguda representative as the Chairman of the party. Degel HaTorah's [[rabbi]]nical arbiter ("[[posek]]") was, until his death in 2012,<ref name="haaretz">{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/rabbi-elyashiv-venerated-leader-in-ultra-orthodox-community-dies-at-102-1.451991 |title=Rabbi Elyashiv, Venerated Leader in Ultra-Orthodox Community, Dies |first=Yair |last=Ettinger |work=Haaretz |date=18 July 2012 |access-date=17 June 2015}}</ref> [[centenarian]] Rabbi [[Yosef Shalom Eliashiv]] of [[Jerusalem]]. Eliashiv served as one of two Chairmen of Degel HaTorah's [[Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah]] ("Council of Torah Sages"). After Rabbi Eliyashiv's death, [[Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman|Rabbi Ahron Shteinman]] led the party. In December 2017, after Rabbi Steinman's death at age 103, the spiritual leadership was split between [[Gershon Edelstein|Rabbi Gershon Edelstein]], Rosh Yeshiva in Ponevezh, and [[Chaim Kanievsky|Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky]], a revered [[Talmid Chacham]] in Bnei Brak. == See also == * [[Schisms among the Jews#Hasidim and Mitnagdim|Hasidim and Mitnagdim]] * [[Agudat Yisrael]] ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=23 Party history] Knesset website * [http://www.chareidi.org/ Dei'ah Vedibur, weekly web publication with material from Yated Neeman newspaper] * [http://www.chareidi.org/archives5766/VYK66autj2.htm" Krias Kodesh for the United Torah Judaism and Shabbos - Agudas Yisroel Degel HaTorah List Issued by Maranan Verabonon Gedolei Vetzadikei Hador Shlita, Parshas Vaykhel/Pekudei 5766] * [https://newtransformation6.wixsite.com/meahshearimnews/the-latest-news/categories/bechiros /MEAH SHEARIM NEWS- bechiros] {{Israeli political parties}} [[Category:1988 establishments in Israel]] [[Category:Ashkenazi Jews topics]] [[Category:Haredi Judaism in Israel]] [[Category:Orthodox Jewish political parties]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1988]] [[Category:Political parties in Israel]] [[Category:Conservative parties in Israel]] [[Category:Social conservative parties]]'