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...Outside the Knesset, ultra-Orthodox circles launched their campaign against the parade yesterday, although plans to hold it this year in Jerusalem have been known for a while. Haredi leader Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and the Gerer Rebbe, patrons of the United Torah Judaism party, instructed their MKs to prepare a no-confidence motion against the government for not preventing the parade. The motion is likely not to prevent the parade, but the rabbis’ public move is politically significant, because it paves the way for waging an institutional campaign against the event. Leading rabbis ad previously had refrained from commenting publicly on the matter.
Given the rabbis’ comments, Haredi politicians have begun to step up their efforts. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, an envoy of Elyashiv, met with the Vatican’s representative this week to issue a joint statement against the “abomination event.”