Education Minister Naftali Bennet, who heads the Bayit Yehudi party, told Yisrael Hayom that Finance Minister (Kulanu) Moshe Kahlon, is pulling the government to the left, primarily regarding required reforms in the judicial system. The report by Yisrael Hayom is scheduled to be released on erev Shabbos, 26 Tishrei.

Bennet said, “On the issue of the infiltrators, “we brought in the law but Kahlon said, ‘I’m stopping it,’ and it stopped.”

“Kahlon said, ‘I see myself as a defender of the Supreme Court,’ and in effect inhibits some of our attempts to change the legal system. A partner comes from the left and pulls the campaign to the left. He is pulling between us and our partnership to the left.”

Bennet added, “in the previous government with Yesh Atid, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid was left-wing and Bayit Yehudi pulled to the right. In this government, Lieberman and Kahlon are centrists while Bayit Yehudi remains right-wing. At the end, since Netanyahu was prime minister, it is the strength of coalition partners that determines the character of coalition.”

Bennett added that he intends to enact the Prevention of Infiltration Law during the winter session of Knesset. He insists that while the government is right-wing, it has been dragged to the left by Kahlon, who has sabotaged the efforts to oust foreign aliens.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)