DIN: Personally the entire staff of DIN is against "Hostage Negotiations" even on a regular Sunday! "Hostage Negotiations" is not going to end this war it will only prolong it! But the fact that Deri wanted Israel to wait till after Shabbos shows you the total disconnect between Chareidim and the rest of the Jewish people. I will bet that if the hostages were "Shomer Shabbat" he would have told the government to NEVER stop negotiating. Besides, Deri's statement is a huge Chillul Hashem!
Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri sparked controversy over the weekend by reportedly asking members of the War Cabinet to delay the departure of an Israeli delegation for hostage negotiations in Qatar until after Shabbos.
In response, opposition and Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid tweeted a link to a Hebrew media report of Deri’s alleged demand along with the caption: “If this isn’t pikuach nefesh, then what is?”
For his part, Yisrael Beiteinu Party chief Avigdor Liberman tweeted: “Deri, what is more pikuach nefesh than returning the kidnapped?”
Liberman included a quote from Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah 252:3: “Every moment that one delays unnecessarily the ransoming of a captive, it is as if he were to shed blood.”