After fighting tenaciously during the last administration to pass the chareidi draft bill, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid now announces that he did not insist in the inclusion of criminal sanctions for persons not complying with the new law.
Speaking to journalist Ben Caspit, Lapid told Channel 2 that his party did not insist on including the criminal sanctions component in the law. This is despite the fact that during his tenure as finance minister he spoke out against fiscal sanction for non-compliance and favored the criminal sanctions.
“When I say that I don’t disqualify anyone, I mean anyone. I don’t work this why. That is a disgusting political hashkafa. I explained from the Knesset podium that criminal sanctions are not the goal. We never demanded this. We spoke of financial sanctions. I think that is more effective. The attorney general introduced the criminal sanctions explaining the law would not stand a challenge to the Supreme Court without the criminal sanctions…”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
1. Note that no hareidi party will join a government that is implementing criminal sanctions – regardless of what patronage is offered.
2.It is mathematically unlikely that either Labor or Likud can form a coalition without including the hareidim.
3. Thus the only “hareidi-free” coalition that is probable is a joint Likud-Labor government, which would keep the patronage for the two big parties and ignore all the little ones, such as Lapid.
4. The parties that supported Lapid on conscription are having second thoughts, since whatever the agenda of Likud and Bayit Yehudi are, the war on the hareidim is a minor issue compared to national security and economic policy.
A) Even labor-likud would be short over a dozen seats.
B) The chances if that happening are very slim, considering the vast difference between them.
C) The only way labor can put together a government is by taking the Arabs, the chareidim, and lapid. What are the chances of THAT happening?
D) At this point, the most likely scenario is the traditional likud-bayit yehudi-chareidim; depending, of course, on how many seats the chareidim get. (I also don’t know how cooperative Yishai will be, even assuming he gets in.)
E) The chareidims one big condition to entering the government will be to cancel all sanctions against charedi non enlisters. (I say charedi because none of the sanctions apply to the sizable portion of the general population that doesn’t enroll.)
F) I think the popular support for bibi is there. Like him or not, he seems the most capable of handling war and explaining it to the world.
been wondering for a long time who is the rabbi in this picture?
RE: #2 (point C):
A very high chance of a coalition of Labor, the two centrist parties (Kulanu and Yesh Atid), Mertetz, the Arabs and the Hareidim. Including the “Hareidim” will be a “fig leaf” against charges they are rendering the state un-Jewish by including the Arabs. Since the Arabs and many leftists also opppose conscription, Herzog would have to either end conscription (and adopt a western style volunteer/professional army) or allow for relgious and conscientious objections. By eliminating the “burden”, sharing it becomes a non-issue. The elites in Israel are desperate to dump Bibi, and the hareidim are desperate to avoid mass arrests and closing of yeshivos.
The key factor is whether Likud and Bayit Yehudi will backtrack on “share the burden”.
Sifsei – that is Rav Fuchs, the rav of the amuta (non-profit organization) that supports soldiers in Netzach Yehuda, aka the nachal chareidi.
Really ! And who did insist?!Piron?!
Considering his other positions,au contrarie
Hareidim should hope and desire that he and his sort ARE their mortal enemies
p.s.Plus do a YWN search,what he saying two years ago about Hareidim .