After the cabinet on Sunday, 28 Menachem Av 5773 announced the new national priority map, Shas leader Aryeh Deri instructed party legal experts to examine the decision. Deri and other in the chareidi camp are having difficulty understanding why Betar Illit was removed when the chareidi community meets all the criteria to be included in the list.
Chareidi lawmakers on Sunday accused the cabinet of presenting a political map that fails to meet up the true criteria, accusing the cabinet of acquiescing to political considerations. Proponents of the decision reject any allegations of anti-chareidi bias, explaining Efrat was among the communities removed, a large dati leumi population center.
Shas is expected to move ahead with its petition to the High Court in the hope of overturning the cabinet decision.
MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman in his reaction to the cabinet decision explained that even after the state budget was passed the coalition continues its anti-chareidi agenda. Party colleague MK Meir Porush added it is just another in a growing number of unfortunate decisions from the Bennett-Lapid-Netanyahu trio. Party MK Uri Maklev added that even in Israel’s political arena there are limits and this exceeded the accepted norm.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This legal case is complete nonsense.
Facts are: (if you care to acquaint yourself)Beitar has been on the priority map since 2009, now since it is a city with over 40,000 people and almost all infrastructure in order, it has been removed from the list. The cities, developments, settlements that are on the priority map are in need of extra grants for housing, infrastructure, communal buildings, etc. This is another instance of DERI making continuous rumbles in the Knesset.
Give me a break. Beitar is not included because it doesn’t need this status. Modi’in Illit, better known as Kiryat Sefer, is included on the list – because it does still need that status. Hmm, wonder why MK Deri didn’t mention that??
an Israeli Yid
How is it that this criminal represents the haredi community?
Why the losing party loses patronage??? Like “duh”
What the article left out is that Deri is being true to form by working with Meretz and Labor. Typical Shas, sell your soul to get a buck.
#3 Just because the secular court convicted Deri for taking bribes and he sat in jail for it (because of his bigger crime”s” – that of being charedi AND Sephardi (unlike Olmert who never sat)), he’s hardly considered a criminal in charedi community nor to Hashem. If anything, just the opposite. He got the fullest respect and support because all that money he received went to support Torah and poor people and he didn’t keep anything for personal use. Halevai you should be “guilty” of such “crimes” after 120.
#4 Not the losing party but a way of getting at charedim full force. Then they complain why we have such bad outlook on Religious Zionists.
REMOVE BATTLE GEAR!!!
Not every legal decision that the Israeli government regulates is discrimination and anti-Charedi. Kiryat Sefer and other cities are still on the priority list and will remain so till their STATUS changes.