Vote for Sisso

October 13, 2008 - 1:23 PM by

The November presidential elections in the US aren’t the only game in town. Next month will also see municipal and mayoral elections in a number of Israeli cities and towns.

porush.jpgMost of the attention has been on Jerusalem, where incumbent haredi Mayor Uri Lupolianski has been replaced on his party’s ticket by longtime MK Meir Porush. Just a couple weeks ago, former Shas leader Aryeh Deri was barred from competing against Porush because the timeout by law following his 1999 conviction of fraud and bribery hadn’t finished yet.
barkat.jpgAnd of course, the great white hope, secular high tech candidate Nir Barkat is hoping to wrest the mayoralty out of the haredi hands. And on the side, Russian mega-rich businessman/shady character and Betar Jerusalem owner Arkady Gaydamak is also running on a ‘speak English only’ platform.

But lots of other cities and towns are also holding elections for mayors, with equally scintillating scenarios. Take the Haifa ‘burb of Kiryat Yam. The mayor there for the last 15 years has been one Shmuel Sisso. The veteran lawyer and former Israel consul general in New York been considered such a popular – or powerful – mayor that nobody had even bothered to register to run against him. That is, until just recently, Sisso’s younger cousin Alon, threw his hat in the ring.

According to a Ma’ariv report, Alon, who is running on a Likud ticket, was really only interested in gaining a seat on the local council, but national Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu advised the 38-year-old attorney to go for broke. Older cousin Shmuel, who is running under Kadima auspices, is not happy with the clan competition. Whatever the results in the Kiryat Yam mayoral elections, it will be all in the family.

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One Comment on Vote for Sisso

  1. David-Joe on Tue, Oct 14th 2008 1:35 AM

    2. I never ever thought I would see the day when America became less of a power and moved towards the socialist level too afraid to embrace the capitalism that made it what it was.

    You see just like in Israel once people feel safe in the clutches of government – no need to think or try too hard and liberty, thats frightening – it never lets go.

    I remember Alan Greenspan detailing why it would be so bad for the United States if the government ever took a stake in any private entity, let alone a bank! Ahh well, should Obama be elected then the Manchurian Candidate will have won after all.

    Any nation including Israel, should it move towards free banking and therefore the strongest currency backed by gold, will ultimately have a rock solid economy not open to the vagaries of irrationalism as we have today.

    There is however one country that stands head and shoulders above all in this time of crisis, it stands alone refusing to join any group and has never had an economic crisis of any sort. Currency always strong. The country is the one that Israel borrowed its military callup system idea from and it is Switzerland.

    It emphasizes its culture and also refuses to allow the building of mosques. They have a well trained and strong military too.

    It is a nation that Israel could well look at for solutions to problems rather than the phoneyness that so long has been the United States.

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