Under Aryeh Deri, Shas became a dovish Left-wing party.

For the years in between it languished as a party apparently devoted to its own causes (money) and sector, with very few bright stars, besides perhaps Aryeh Attias.

But since the elections (and even slightly before) Eli Yishai started changing the party's tune.

Haaretz is reporting that Yishai is telling his Ministry (Misrad Hapnim) to do all they can to help the settlements.

In the Second Lebanon war he proved to be very intelligent, and understood what was going on there better than any other serving minister.

Yishai has always leaned more right than Deri, and it took a while, but perhaps he is finally coming out to his own.

He is certainly talking about doing the right thing.

That's for sure.