Kulturkampf between Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu gets vicious

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If Israel is going down a far-right path in this election,peace will be a nonstarter.

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Hours after she first heard about Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's verbal attack on Russian immigrants for "selling pork and praying at churches," the Russian-immigrant owner of a grocery store in Netanya said Sunday she feared that Shas might try to shut her business down.

"I wasn't going to vote this year but now my husband says we have to vote for Lieberman, otherwise they will shut us down," she said, referring to the Soviet-born head of Yisrael Beiteinu.

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