Moshe Tzarfati of the fledgling Am Shalem political party, led by MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, reiterated in an interview with Arutz Sheva the party’s intention is to reach out to the Anglo community.

“I think our views of integration are very familiar to Anglos,” Tzarfati said. “They have seen, in their communities, Hareidis that are also doctors, engineers, people who contribute to the general society” and are able to “combine very high general studies with very high Torah learning.”

The party, which broke away from Shas in an effort to provide the hareidi-religious community with an alternative voice, advocates military service for yeshiva students, has criticized the lack of secular content in the hareidi-religious educational system, and seeks to transform the chief rabbinate to reflect a moderate, lenient and Zionistic Judaism.

“We are trying to build a list of people that really reflects all sections of society,” Tzarfati told Arutz Sheva, adding that the Hareidi leadership of Rabbi Amsalem comes from Sephardic views.

“Sephardis were never anti-Zionist,” he said. “They were always part of the military service. Even the rabbis were for the integration of all Sephardic society in the armed service.”

“We reflect a view that had been forgotten for maybe 30 years under Shas, but is still very vibrant in the hearts and minds of Hareidis,” Tsarfati concluded.