Shas

The party was originally called Shom'rei Torah ("Guardians of the Torah"), with the acronym ש״ת, pronounced "Shat" or "Shas". However, Israeli election law requires a party wishing to use letters for their acronym that already appear in the acronym of an existing party to first obtain permission from that party, and the Israeli Labor Party, whose letters are אמת, refused to grant Shas permission to use the ת. Instead, it was named ש״ס, Shas, an acronym for Shomrei S'farad, meaning "Sephardic Guardians".{{Cite web|title=Shas|url=https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/shas/|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Israel Democracy Institute|archive-date=24 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824160752/https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/shas/|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Stanislawski|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jRs1DQAAQBAJ&q=Shomrei+Sefarad&pg=PA99|title=Zionism: A Very Short Introduction|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976604-8|language=en|access-date=3 October 2020|archive-date=24 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824160742/https://books.google.com/books?id=jRs1DQAAQBAJ&q=Shomrei+Sefarad&pg=PA99|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=הצטרפו ליום השני של הגשת הרשימות לכנסת ה - 24|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqf7Hsii80&t=368m55s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/jyqf7Hsii80| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-04|website=Central Elections Committee}}{{cbignore}} The name is also a reference to the six orders (Shisha S'darim) of the Mishnah and the Talmud, both of which are often referred to by the same acronym, "Shas". The party's legal name is "Hit'akhdut ha-S'pharadim ha-Olamit Shom'rei Torah" (התאחדות הספרדים העולמית שומרי תורה), meaning "International Union of the Sepharadim, Guardians of the Torah".

File:Aryeh Deri.jpg, chairman of Shas]]

File:Eli Yishai 2009.jpg

Shas was founded in 1984, prior to the elections to the eleventh Knesset in the same year, in protest against the small representation of Sephardim in the largely Ashkenazi Agudat Yisrael, through the merger of regional lists which were compiled in 1983. It was originally known as the Worldwide Sephardic Association of Torah Keepers ({{langx|he|הִתְאַחֲדוּת הַסְּפָרַדִּים הָעוֹלָמִית שׁוֹמְרֵי תּוֹרָה}}, Hitahdut HaSfaradim HaOlamit Shomrei Torah). The party was formed under the leadership of former Israeli Chief Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who established a four-member (including himself) Council of Torah Sages and remained the party's spiritual leader until his death. In founding the party, Yosef received strategic help and guidance from Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of Israel's non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews.{{cite EJ|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX2587521312&v=2.1&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w|title=Yosef, Ovadiah|author=Alfassi, Itzhak|volume=21|pages=399|access-date=21 December 2011}} Yosef founded the party in 1984 on the platform of a return to religion and as a counter to an establishment dominated by Ashkenazi Jews of European extraction.{{cite news |url=http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=636769 |title=Israel's influential Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dead at 93 |agency=AFP |publisher=Ma'an News Agency |date=7 October 2013 |access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-date=18 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618195710/http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=636769 |url-status=live }}

Not all Shas voters are ultra-Orthodox Jews. Many of its voters are Modern Orthodox and traditional Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, due to its alignment with the promotion of an "authentic Middle Eastern" Israeli culture, which fits with traditional Zionist beliefs of a revival of authentic, non-Europeanized Jewish culture. However, it still represents the Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredi Jewish sectors in the Knesset. Shas has at times been able to exert disproportionate influence by gaining control of the balance of power in the Knesset within the context of the traditionally narrow margin between Israel's large parties. Like its Labor Zionist counterparts (i. e., Labor and Meretz) that gain votes from the kibbutz movement, Shas gains votes and supports from moshavim that are inhabited by Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews, either Orthodox or non-Orthodox. Also, since it became a member of the World Zionist Organization, it gains votes from Orthodox settlers in the West Bank.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In the elections to the eleventh Knesset in 1984, Shas won four seats. Following Aryeh Deri's conviction on corruption charges in 1999, Shas gained 17 seats in the 1999 elections, its strongest showing since its formation. Although 26 seats were projected for the following election had it run in 2001, Shas was reduced to 11 seats in the 2003 election because the two-ballot system was amended.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In the 2006 elections, it gained one more seat, after running what the BBC called "an aggressive campaign that targeted the neo-conservative economic policies of the previous government",{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4813056.stm#Shas |title=Israeli political parties |publisher=BBC News |date=5 April 2006 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=22 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622043916/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4813056.stm#Shas |url-status=live }} and joined Ehud Olmert's coalition government, alongside Kadima, Labor, Gil and, between October 2006 and January 2008, Yisrael Beiteinu. In the government, Shas party leader Yishai was Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor and Deputy Prime Minister, while Ariel Atias was Minister of Communications and Meshulam Nahari and Yitzhak Cohen were Ministers without Portfolio.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Following the 2009 elections, in which Shas won eleven seats, it joined Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government and held four cabinet posts. Eli Yishai, who led the party at that time, was one of four Deputy Prime Ministers and Minister of Internal Affairs.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

On 4 December 2011, Shas launched its United States affiliate, American Friends of Shas, based in Brooklyn, New York.

Shas won 11 seats in the 2013 elections,{{Cite news |url=http://www.jta.org/2013/03/05/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/with-time-running-out-to-form-a-government-netanyahu-facing-tough-choices |title=With time running out to form a government, Netanyahu was facing tough choices |first=Ben |last=Sales |publisher=JTA |date=5 March 2013 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=4 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104225642/http://www.jta.org/2013/03/05/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/with-time-running-out-to-form-a-government-netanyahu-facing-tough-choices |url-status=live }} but chose to form part of the Labor opposition to Netanyahu's new government. Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party and Naftali Bennett of The Jewish Home, who had won more seats and joined the coalition, both favored conscription of the previously exempt Haredi men into Israel's national service and a reduction in state financial support for Haredi families, policies Shas opposes.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In December 2014, Eli Yishai left the Shas party, which he had led for more than a decade. He said he would lead a new religious party in the election scheduled for March 2015. His departure from Shas and Aryeh Deri did not come as a surprise.{{cite news |author=Yair Ettinger |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.632013 |title=Eli Yishai breaks away from Shas, announces new party |newspaper=Haaretz |date=15 December 2014 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=7 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407223844/http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.632013 |url-status=live }} The party that he formed, Yachad, failed to pass the election threshold.{{Cite web|url=http://www.votes20.gov.il/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318200737/http://www.votes20.gov.il/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 March 2015|title=Votes 20}}

In the 2015 elections, Shas was accused of tampering with the ballots of Yachad.{{Cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193970|title=Shas Activists Caught on Tape Guiding Voter Fraud|website=Israel National News|date=13 April 2015 |access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110080110/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193970|url-status=live}} They were also accused of creating a straw party with the symbols of Otzma Yehudit, which was running on a joint list with Yachad during the election.{{Cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192770|title=Fictitious Party Meant to Harm Yachad, Rightist Coalition?|website=Israel National News|date=17 March 2015 |access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114705/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/192770|url-status=live}} During the 2015 election, Shas won 7 seats.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/2015-elections|title=2015 Elections|publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|language=en|access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=24 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171124082250/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/2015-elections|url-status=live}}

In 2017, opinion polling showed that Shas was falling under the election threshold of 3.25%.{{Cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/236936|title=Will Shas be left out of the next Knesset?|website=Israel National News|date=19 October 2017 |access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114827/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/236936|url-status=live}} In response, Shas leaders said that there was a coup attempt in the party.{{Cite web|url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237522|title=Deri: Coup attempt in Shas|website=Israel National News|date=November 2017 |access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110173022/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/237522|url-status=live}} In the same year, a tape was leaked of the party's former spiritual leader, criticizing Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar.{{Cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Leaked-recording-of-late-Shas-party-leader-latest-in-party-civil-war-513737|title=Leaked recording of late Shas party leader latest in party civil war|work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|access-date=2017-11-10|archive-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110084856/http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Leaked-recording-of-late-Shas-party-leader-latest-in-party-civil-war-513737|url-status=live}}

On 17 April 2020, a senior Likud minister, speaking on anonymity, told Al-Monitor that Deri was mediating the political coalition talks between Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz. It was also reported that Deri "might even be open to a new alliance with Blue and White – now that its anti-clerical component, Yair Lapid, quit the party and went his own way", and would only commit to remaining with Netanyahu's coalition until the next election.{{cite news|url=https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-rightwing-camp-national-unity.html|title=Netanyahu's right-wing bloc starts cracking|first=Mazal|last=Mualem|publisher=Al-Monitor|date=17 April 2020|access-date=17 April 2020|archive-date=21 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200421113726/https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-rightwing-camp-national-unity.html|url-status=live}}

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The stated purpose of the party is to "return the crown to the former glory", meaning to protect the religious and cultural heritage of Sephardic Jewry and rectify what it sees as the "continued economic and social discrimination against the Sephardic population of Israel".{{cite web |url=https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=2 |title=Shas |publisher=Knesset |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=24 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824160751/https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=2 |url-status=live }} Focusing on the needs of Sephardic Orthodox Israelis, Shas established its own government-funded religious education system called MaAyan HaHinuch HaTorani, which became popular in poor Sephardic towns, increasing the party's popular support.{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/news/israel/147999/shas-sets-up-shop-in-us/ |title=Shas Sets Up Shop in U.S. |work=The Jewish Daily Forward |date=20 December 2011 |last=Guttman |first=Nathan |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619050903/http://forward.com/news/israel/147999/shas-sets-up-shop-in-us/ |url-status=live }}

Shas advocates for the increased influence of Halakha, the Jewish religious law, in Israeli society, and actively engages in the Baal teshuva movement, encouraging non-Orthodox Israelis of Sephardic and Mizrahi-Jewish heritage to adopt an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle. Shas is a Haredi religious party, but it has participated in left-wing governments and is often willing to compromise on both religious and economic issues.

At first, Shas followed a moderate policy on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, after Yosef had declared that lives were more important than territories, but by the 2010s it had moved to the right, opposing any freeze in Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. In addition, it was skeptical towards the U.S. Obama Administration's intentions regarding the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and began to support a consolidation of Israeli settlement interests, especially regarding yeshivas and Jewish holy sites in the West Bank. It further believes in a "United Jerusalem" and supports the Greater Jerusalem plan.{{clarify|reason=What is the "Greater Jerusalem P/plan?"|date=June 2015}} In 2010, Shas joined the World Zionist Organization, having made significant changes to its charter.{{cite news |url=http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135611 |title=Hareidi Party Joins WZO, Former MK Yigal Bibi Will Represent |work=Arutz Sheva |date=20 January 2010 |last=Fendel |first=Hillel |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=25 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325044144/http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135611 |url-status=live }}

One of Shas's demands is a compensation package for Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews who were forced to flee their home countries and leave their property behind.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

Shas opposes any form of public expression of homosexuality, including Gay Pride parades, especially in Jerusalem. Shas MK Nissim Ze'ev accused the homosexual community of "carrying out the self-destruction of Israeli society and the Jewish people", calling homosexuals "a plague as toxic as bird flu".{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/shas-mk-gays-are-causing-israeli-society-to-self-destruct-1.238216 |work=Haaretz |date=29 January 2008 |title=Shas MK: Gays are causing Israeli society to self-destruct |last=Ilan |first=Shahar |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619050243/http://www.haaretz.com/news/shas-mk-gays-are-causing-israeli-society-to-self-destruct-1.238216 |url-status=live }} However, the party condemns any form of violence against gay people.{{cite news |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3755455,00.html |work=Ynet News |date=2 August 2009 |title=Shas condemns attack on gay center |last=Meranda |first=Amnon |access-date=28 February 2018 |archive-date=28 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228230130/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3755455,00.html |url-status=live }}

File:Ovadya Yosef.jpg, long-time spiritual leader of Shas]]

Several Shas MKs, including Aryeh Deri, Rafael Pinhasi, Yair Levy, Ofer Hugi and Yair Peretz, have been convicted of criminal offenses that include fraud and forgery. In addition, MK Shlomo Benizri was convicted of bribery, conspiring to commit a crime and obstruction of justice on 1 April 2008.{{cite news |author=Ofra Edelman |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/benizri-i-ve-been-persecuted-for-8-years-for-no-fault-of-my-own-1.243141 |title=Benizri: I've been persecuted for 8 years for no fault of my own |newspaper=Haaretz |date=1 April 2008 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=19 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619050158/http://www.haaretz.com/news/benizri-i-ve-been-persecuted-for-8-years-for-no-fault-of-my-own-1.243141 |url-status=live }} Benizri resigned was replaced by Mazor Bahaina, who was number thirteen on the Shas list. In 1999, Deri was sentenced to prison time on corruption charges.{{Citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In 2010, Ovadia Yosef cursed the Palestinians as "evil, bitter enemies of Israel" and said that, "Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this world. God should strike them with a plague." Saeb Erekat of the PLO said Yosef's remarks were tantamount to a call for "genocide against Palestinians". Yosef later apologized and wrote to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: "I support your efforts and praise all the leaders and the peoples — Egyptians, Jordanians and Palestinians — who are partners and wish the success of this important process of achieving peace in our region, and preventing bloodshed. May God grant you longevity and may you succeed in your efforts for peace and may there be peace in our region."{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ovadia-yosef-atones-to-mubarak-after-declaring-palestinians-should-die-1.314243 |work=Haaretz |date=16 September 2010 |title=Ovadia Yosef atones to Mubarak after declaring Palestinians should die |last=Ettinger |first=Yair |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=17 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317064227/http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ovadia-yosef-atones-to-mubarak-after-declaring-palestinians-should-die-1.314243 |url-status=live }} Previously, Yosef had called Arabs "vipers" and called for Israel to "annihilate" them.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm |title=Rabbi calls for annihilation of Arabs |publisher=BBC News |date=10 April 2001 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024023526/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1270038.stm |url-status=live }} "It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable."{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/shas-spiritual-leader-abbas-and-palestinians-should-perish-1.310800 |title=Shas spiritual leader: Abbas and Palestinians should perish |work=Haaretz |date=29 August 2010 |access-date=21 December 2011 |archive-date=29 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229071507/http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/shas-spiritual-leader-abbas-and-palestinians-should-perish-1.310800 |url-status=live }} A spokesman later clarified that his comments were only aimed at murderers and terrorists and not the entire Arab world.

In 2020, the party was fined ₪7,500 by the Central Elections Committee for giving out prayer cards at polling stations during the 2020 Knesset elections, which were claimed to cure "Corona and every illness and pestilence".{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/shas-party-slapped-with-fine-for-anti-virus-charms/|title=Shas party slapped with fine for anti-virus charms|website=The Times of Israel|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06|archive-date=6 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306165436/https://www.timesofisrael.com/shas-party-slapped-with-fine-for-anti-virus-charms/|url-status=live}}

Women activists protested the lack of female representation in Shas by organizing a "No Female Candidate, No Female Vote" campaign. The women said they would not vote for a party that does not include women candidates on its slate and sent an open letter to the Knesset representatives of ultra-Orthodox parties, which was also circulated on social media. Rabbi Mordechai Blau, a senior party member, threatened that women participating in the movement or bucking the party leadership would find their children "banned from Haredi schools" and their employers "boycotted by the community".{{cite news |last=Sommer |first=Allison Kaplan |title=Threats and backlash for ultra-Orthodox women seeking political voice |date=8 December 2014 |newspaper=Haaretz |url=http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/routine-emergencies/1.630630 |access-date=17 June 2015 |archive-date=16 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816191547/http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/routine-emergencies/1.630630 |url-status=live }} Shas announced that it would create a women's council within the movement, a step that was welcomed by the campaigners. At the same time, they said: "We will move forward and call on the Haredi factions to enable women to serve as MKs in the Knesset."{{cite news |last=Nachshoni |first=Kobi |title=Ovadia Yosef's daughter: Shas is my home, I won't run for Knesset |date=14 December 2014 |publisher=Ynetnews |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4603452,00.html |access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-date=1 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701075744/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4603452,00.html |url-status=live }} Eli Yishai said on Israel Radio: "There is nothing in Jewish law that says you can't have a woman as a Knesset member. But our rabbis decide what they decide on every subject and the same goes for this."{{cite news |title=Haredi women fight for bigger role in politics |date=26 December 2014 |publisher=Ynetnews |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4608128,00.html |access-date=18 June 2015 |archive-date=1 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701070827/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4608128,00.html |url-status=live }}

When a group of ultra-Orthodox women created their own party, U'Bizchutan, Isaac Bezalel, the Shas spokesman, said: "The Haredi public is not yet open to women serving in the Knesset."{{cite news |author=Michele Chabin |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/02/28/israel-jerusalem-haredi-jewish-women-political-party/23892059/ |title=Israel's ultra-Orthodox Haredi women form political party |newspaper=USA Today |date=28 February 2015 |access-date=15 April 2021 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023003726/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/02/28/israel-jerusalem-haredi-jewish-women-political-party/23892059/ |url-status=live }}

File:Ballot2009 shas.jpg

Eleven men serve as members of the Knesset for Shas in the twenty-fifth Knesset:

1. Aryeh Deri
2. Ya'akov Margi (replaced by Erez Malul on 2 February 2023)
3. Yoav Ben-Tzur (replaced by Yonatan Mishraki on 3 January 2023)
4. Michael Malchieli
5. Haim Biton (replaced by Semion Moshiashvili on 2 February 2023)
6. Moshe Arbel
7. Yinon Azulai
8. Moshe Abutbul
9. Uriel Buso
10. Yosef Taieb
11. Avraham Betzalel

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! colspan="3" | Leader

! Took office

! Left office

! colspan="2" |Spiritual Leader

! Took office

! Left office

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | 1

| 70x96px

| Nissim Ze'ev

| 1982

| 1984

| rowspan="5" | 70px

| rowspan="5" |Ovadia Yosef

| rowspan="5" |1982

| rowspan="5" |2013

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | 2

| 70px

| Yitzhak Peretz

| 1984

| 1990

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | 3

| 70px

| Aryeh Deri

| 1990

| 1999

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | 4

| 70px

| Eli Yishai

| 1999

| 2012

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | 5

| 70x45px 70x45px
70x45px

| Triumvirate{{efn|name=Tri|Aryeh Deri, Eli Yishai and Ariel Atias}}

| 2012

| 2013

|-

| style="background: {{party color|Shas}}; color: white" | (3)

| 70px

| Aryeh Deri

| 2013

| Incumbent

| 70px

| Shalom Cohen

| 2013

| 2022

|-

|}

{{notelist}}

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center

!Election

!Leader

!Votes

!%

!Seats

!+/–

!Status

|-

|1984

|rowspan=2| Yitzhak Haim Peretz

|63,605

|3.07

|{{Composition bar|4|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|1988

|107,709

|4.72

|{{Composition bar|6|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 2

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|rowspan=2|1992

|rowspan=4| Aryeh Deri

|rowspan=2|129,347

|rowspan=2|4.94

|rowspan=2|{{Composition bar|6|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|rowspan=2|{{steady}}

|{{yes2|Coalition}} {{small|(1992–1993)}}

|-

|{{no2|Opposition}} {{small|(1993–1996)}}

|-

|1996

|259,796

|8.51

|{{Composition bar|10|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 4

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|1999

|430,676

|13.01

|{{Composition bar|17|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 7

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|2003

|rowspan=4| Eli Yishai

|258,879

|8.22

|{{Composition bar|11|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{decrease}} 6

|{{no2|Opposition}}

|-

|2006

|299,054

|9.53

|{{Composition bar|12|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 1

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|2009

|286,300

|8.49

|{{Composition bar|11|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{decrease}} 1

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|2013

|331,868

|8.75

|{{Composition bar|11|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{steady}}

|{{no2|Opposition}}

|-

|2015

|rowspan=6| Aryeh Deri

|241,613

|5.73

| {{Composition bar|7|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{decrease}} 4

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|Apr 2019

|258,275

|5.99

| {{Composition bar|8|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 1

| {{partial2|Caretaker}}

|-

|Sep 2019

|329,834

|7.44

|{{Composition bar|9|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 1

| {{partial2|Caretaker}}

|-

|2020

|352,842

|7.69

|{{Composition bar|9|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{steady}}

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|-

|2021

|316,008

|7.17

|{{Composition bar|9|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{steady}}

|{{no2|Opposition}}

|-

|2022

|392,644

|8.24

|{{Composition bar|11|120|{{party color|Shas}}}}

|{{increase}} 2

|{{yes2|Coalition}}

|}

{{reflist}}

• {{Official website|http://www.shas.org.il}} {{in lang|he}}
• [https://www.knesset.gov.il/faction/eng/FactionPage_eng.asp?PG=2 Shas] Knesset website

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