Former senior government minister and head of the Kadima Party Tzipi Livni does not hesitate to share her extreme secularist views, views that have no place for gedolei yisrael or Torah values.
Livni was a guest speaker at a forum addressing the public’s trust in the judicial system. She stated that as a former senior cabinet minister, the public at large does not trust the judicial system. She addressed what she perceives is the battle for control, questioning if the law and a constitution will run the lives of citizens via the judicial system or will it be halacha and the words of rabbonim.
She lamented the fact that now that the new school year has begun, 40% of the students will be taught that “the rabbi has the final word” and this is most troublesome to Livni. “They will be educated to hate the secular courts” she added, and “they will listen to Rav Ovadia who says they are wicked”. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=68586
Livni believes the only solution is a constitution, and this must be accomplished within the next five years. “We have a window of opportunity of five years to pass a constitution before these very same children who learn to prefer the rabbi will decide the character of the State of Israel. We must pass a constitution that will determine the national values of the state, a democratic Jewish state. This is the struggle and we mustn’t sweep it under the carpet”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Just double checking. . .
is this a Jewish state?
Livni: “questioning if the law and a constitution will run the lives of citizens via the judicial system or will it be halacha and the words of rabbonim.”
A state that runs against halacha is considered Jewish?
Maybe we should stop calling it the Jewish state.
#1- Who is calling Israel a Jewish state. If you want a Jewish state the first thing you’ll have to do is expel all the zionist. The whole idea of zionism, from day one, is to establish a state where persons of Jewish descent can be FREE (“frei” in Yiddish) from the yoke of Torah so they can live their lives as normal goyim.
The Orthodox Jews who have been supporting the zionists are, to use a phrase they like to use, “suckers”.
Sounds familiar,
anyone ever heard the line “hava v’nischachma lo…..”