Rabbi has promised party leaders opposed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they would be rewarded for entering Paradise if they joined a unity government of religious parties.
Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the second-in-command of the centrist opposition White Blue Party, Yair Lapid, and right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, said that "if you agree to join a coalition controlled by religious parties, you will be rewarded with a heavenly voice from heaven." ".
The two parties (Blue and White, Yisrael Beiteinu) oppose joining any government that includes the religious parties Shas and Yehudot Hatura.
"I am sure you did not intend to anger the Almighty, but only the politicians. The evidence is that God did not allow you to establish a bad government," Cohen said, promising to cut off paradise.
Lieberman insists that any government joins the draft law, which binds religious Jews to military service, as do other Israelis, which religious parties oppose. Lapid does not hide his strong opposition to religious parties.
Efforts to form a new government face a dilemma, with Khamis expiring next week by President Reuven Rivlin's deadline to form a government.
If Netanyahu fails in his mission, Rivlin will commission Benny Gantz to form a government. But in the absence of the votes required to form a government - for both Netanyahu and Gantz - there is likely to call for new elections.
Two election rounds were held this year, the first in April and the second in September, due to the failure to form a government.