(NEWS) Shas Party Pushes WZO To Declare Jews Indigenous To Israel

"Tuesday will mark the commencement of the 36th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, the first such congress that will see the Shas faction as a formal member of the Zionist movement. After years of being labeled a “non-Zionist” party, Shas – which represents a largely hareidi-religious Sephardic constituency – stunned many this year by officially defining itself as Zionist and requesting to join the World Zionist Organization, founded by Herzl in 1897 as the midwife to the future Jewish state."

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