About 100 religious Jews announced here Wednesday that they were forming a new group to implement “the ideals of religious Zionism.” They described themselves as a political-social movement but said they did not intend to run candidates for the Knesset in the May 17 elections. According to their spokesman, Rabbi Yaacov Filber, the group wants to assemble all religious Jews who are dissatisfied with the existing religious parties. Filber said the ideological platform of the National Religious Party “is beautiful” but “NRP members do not implement it.”
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