„We have to support our ethnic group and the Sephardics. We are just as good as anyone else,“ my father would say. The fact that ahead of the early elections Likud has only one Sephardic on its roster, Silvan Shalom, is and insult to the party‘s support base, which consists of a large number of Sephardics. One has to wonder why Likud is kicking out its Sephardic representatives one after the other.