Uri was a great representative for religious Zionism. He could get his message across... with a kindness and humor that was infectious and left you wanting to hear more.
"I mourn the passing of Minister Uri Orbach, a writer, a journalist, a spiritual man and a Jewish patriot," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday afternoon following the death of the Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) minister and Knesset Member. Netanyahu added, "Uri won over all who listened to him with his charm, knowledge and deep […]
His death is a great loss to his family and to Israel at-large well as the Bayit Yehudi party.
He is suffering from a blood disease, His condition has improved slightly.
Bayit Yehudi, or its predecessor, the Mafdal party, hasn't held the Education Minister's portfolio since 1999.
The Jewish Home took a stand against freeing more terrorists. It knew it would lose. The Likud won the battle but may have lost the next war – the one that is fought at the election polls.
It is amazing to see how the same people can be deceived time and again.
Hundreds of activists who had arrived to celebrate the Mimouna applauded the MKs announcements that there was no other option for their two factions but to run a united list in the next Knesset elections. MK Yaakov Katz (Ketzele) repeated his earlier announcement that if the two factions do not run as one, he would remove himself from the campaign.