1. By “mainstream Haredi” I refer to Lithuanianmitnagdim, those Hasidic groups associated with Agudath Israel, and the core group of Sephardicbnei Torah[full time yeshiva students] that constitutes the center of the Shas party's constituency. I do not include the more extreme Edah Haredit, Hardal circles in religious-Zionism, nor the traditional laypeople who may vote and support Shas but are not themselves Haredi.
2. Benjamin Brown,Trembling at the Word of the People: Haredi Critique of Israeli Democracy(Jerusalem,2012),16[Hebrew].
3. B. Shpitzer,HaEdah,30November2012.
4. Ya'akov Lugasi,Questions for My Soul: Questions? And Answers,3vols. (Jerusalem,2007);