In a revelation that will send shockwaves throughout our community, it has come to light that senior members of the Conservative movement have been secretly orchestrating a campaign to sway public opinion and even influence daas Torah within the heart of the chareidi community, using deception, subterfuge, and substantial financial incentives. According to leaked WhatsApp conversations and internal correspondence obtained in an investigation by Kikar HaShabbat, high-ranking figures in the Conservative movement’s global apparatus plotted to funnel money into targeted ad campaigns, publish street posters and pashkevilim, and even offer payment in exchange for rabbinic signatures and endorsements. The goal? To undermine the Eretz HaKodesh slate and influence outcomes in the World Zionist Organization elections, all while pretending to be “insiders” in the chareidi world. The deceit has been layered and carefully crafted. Conservative officials used code names, false identities, and messaging designed to appear authentically chareidi, all to gain credibility and push their anti-Zionist messaging into the streets of Bnei Brak, Yerushalayim, and the United States. The newly uncovered materials reveal a calculated effort to mask their involvement at every step, with instructions to campaigners to “never reveal the client” and to fabricate identities, such as falsely claiming to be “former talmidim of Rav Landau seeking to protect his honor.”  The Secret WhatsApp Group of Senior Conservative Officials The attempts by the Conservative movement to meddle in the chareidi public are now fully exposed. Kikar HaShabbat’s earlier investigation that sparked widespread outrage in Israel and abroad, the news outlet has now revealed the full WhatsApp exchanges behind the campaign led by a senior representative of the Conservative movement and his assistant. They sought to run a major campaign within the chareidi world, both in Israel and the United States, involving themselves in every detail, while continuously hiding their involvement and covering their tracks. As was reported, the Merkaz Olami the non-for-profit arm of the Conservative movement funded the entire campaign of posters plastered throughout chareidi neighborhoods attacking those who were participating in the World Zionist Organization. The organization and its representatives declined to comment—but did not deny the report. Now, Kikar HaShabbat has revealed another chapter: explosive WhatsApp exchanges within a group chat involving Yizhar Hess, a senior Conservative figure who serves as Deputy Chair of the World Zionist Organization, and his chief of staff, Eyal Ostrinsky, a former Labor party member known as the mastermind behind many progressive campaigns in Zionist institutions. In the chats, they covertly coordinate every part of the campaign. At the same time, Hess tweets publicly about his supposed partnership and unity with Chareidim, while behind the scenes he directs a targeted smear campaign, planting posters and pashkevilim against them to manipulate their opionion right in their own neighborhoods. “When you get a personal flyer in front of your home, and the neighbors see it, it’s more effective,” he says. In the WhatsApp exchanges, the deep and direct involvement of Hess and Ostrinsky as the masterminds of the misleading proganda against Eretz HaKodesh and its suporters is clearly visible, utilizing street ads, pashkevilim, social media posts, and even ad placement in American chareidi publications under disguised funding sources. From the messages, it’s clear that not only did the money come directly from the Conservative movement, but Hess and Ostrinsky were personally involved in writing […]