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Labor party premiership candidate Yitzchak Herzog during an interview with the Knesset Channel stated he believes the current chareidi draft law is responsible for stopping the fascinating flow of chareidi recruitment into the IDF.
Herzog states that a balance must be found between each segment of society pulling its weight including national service, as well as opening job opportunity doors towards equality in the workplace and permitting each person to live in line with his beliefs.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This is a very good sign. It indicates that possible next P.M. Herzog realizes he’ll need the Chareidim in his coalition and that he is willing to give them the concessions they are insisting on in demolishing the draft law for them to join the Labor-led government.
Reminder: in a few days he may be needing to recruit both Arabs and Hareidim to his coalition. If Israel allowed religious and conscientious objections to military service, it would satisfy the Arabs and Hareidim, and pave the way to Herzog becoming Prime Minister (unless of course, the nationalist parties decide they are willing to give up their dream of destroying the hareidi communities).
Astonishing
How many hundreds of online articles and commentors over the past couple of years and many more prior
kept browbeating and preaching that main BIG issue between chareidi vs secular is the former’s unwillingnes to “Share the burden”
Now across the spectrum everyone close to the top proclaims and
believes differently?Really all it was a years long Cosmic farce ?
Lest anyone be lulled, Herzog Shr”y supports all the same goals as Lapid ,just with a slightly softer and coy tone
We, traditionally, long believed that those who approach with softness and nicer words ARE all the more dangerous
In some ways ,an Obama incarnate
Everyhthing stated in this interview is an old hat and hardly a breakthrough:
Dr. Martin Sherman
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For Lapid’s core constituency, the demand for haredi conscription is a great drum to beat – so long as it remains unfulfilled. For I have a very strong suspicion – corroborated by recent pronouncements by several prominent left-wing figures – that if it were to begin to emerge as a tangible prospect, the biggest opponents to it would be many of those who demand it most vociferously today.
After all, the last thing Lapid’s “core” wants to see is battalions of bearded ultra-Orthodox enlistees with M-16s slung menacingly over their shoulders..’
Working without coercion has always been DONE.
Put aside the army ,can everyone for once?
If Herzog and what he represents wins, the State henceforth will soon shortly have less right to call itself jewish than many gentile entities
The bills being touted are 3 Chamuros,shmad and yayhareig v’al ya’avor
In order To arouse Others to realize how much is on the line, let us ReRead some comments from shortly after last unimportant election !
Gefet says:
March 3, 2013 at 12:15 pm
How laughable, “some observers” (aka Mr. YWN-Israel desk and Likud hacks) are angry that there is actually a politician or two out there who stands by his principles.
Here’s what some “some other observers” have to say:
1. The Likud has only one goal – to stay in power at any cost.
2. The charedi parties have only one goal – to continue squeezing the Israeli public for money in return for not working, not serving in Tzahal and controlling the Rabbanut and certain key ministries.
3. Tzipi Livni has only one goal – to stay relevant despite her failed record as oppositon leader and current head of the HaTnua party.
In other words, these are kindred spirits – the same corrupt politicians anxious to maintain an untenable status quo while real problems only worsen.
So yes, it is quite true that Bennett and Lapid will wind up in the opposition, but it won’t be because they ‘pushed their luck’. It is because they are represent a concept that is nearly extinct in Israeli politics, a desire to make substantive, positive changes.
Gefet says:
March 3, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Yerushalmit,
You can disagree with me all you like, but please don’t resort to the usual games of questioning Bennett’s personal frumkeit and labeling anyone who opposes the chareidi agenda as anti-frum. It might play well to a select audience, but at best it elicits a yawn from anyone with eyes to see.
The reality is the there are frum members of Yesh Atid and Lapid himself has not said anything anti-frum. I am more concerned about the anti-frum agenda of the UTJers and Shasniks who wish for nothing more than to keep their voters impoverished, uneducated and selfish.
Typical politician. Says what you want to hear. How about looking into what he really believes and the harm he will do to all of us.
One issue people are the most dangerous to any democracy, since they will allow anything just to get exactly what they want and everything else be damned. Even when that everything else is so alien to all their belief systems, i.e. Frum politicians saying they can sit in a coalition with Meretz or the fact that Livni/Herzog is a danger for our safety.