Degel haTorah or Degel HaTorah, ("Banner of Torah") is a political party in Israel established and run by AshkenaziHarediJews. Its representaives are mebers of the Knesset. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, transliteration: ; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliteration: ) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... This article is about the Ashkenazi Jews. ... Haredi Judaism, also called ultra-Orthodox Judaism, is the most theologically conservative form of Judaism. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Knesset (כנסת, Hebrew for assembly) is the Parliament of Israel. ...
As of 2005, Degel HaTorah is part of the coalition government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ariel Sharon, the eleventh Prime Minister of Israel, spent many years in the Israel Defense Forces before being elected in March 2001. ...
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The Degel HaTorah ("Flag of Torah") party that is guided by the rabbinic heads (usually the leading rosh yeshivas ("deans") of the Lithuanian yeshivas) of non-Hasidic HarediAshkenaziJews.
He chose the name Degel HaTorah meaning "Flag [of] The Torah" to be a contrast to the well-known flag of Israel and its connection with the secular-dominated State of Israel (an "anti-Torah" symbol) in his opinion.
The two groups finally compromised by proposing dividing the sixth seat between two representatives on a rotating schedule, (as was done in the last Knesset between the Belz and Vizhnitz communities for the fifth seat).
Degel HaTorah (or Degel haTorah) (דגל התורה Hebrew for "Flag/Banner [of] the Torah") is an Israeli mostly AshkenaziHaredi Judaism political party with a small number of seats (2-3) in the Knesset, Israel's national parliament.
Degel HaTorah mostly reprents the so-called "Lithuanian wing" of the non-Hasidic Haredim (known by some as "Mitnagdim") as opposed to the Hasidic dominated Agudat Israel party.
The Degel HaTorah party was founded as an independent party by Rabbi Elazar Shach in 1988 splintering off from Agudat Israel because of policy disputes with the Hasidic rebbes within Agudat Israel which had been the only party for all AshkenaziHarediJews in Israel.
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