Education Minister (Yesh Atid) Rabbi Shai Piron challenges the position of party leader Finance Minister Yair Lapid regarding the hashkafa of a Greater Israel.
Speaking in Ariel University on Thursday, 14 Sivan 5774, Rabbi Piron said “We mustn’t reduce [the dream of] a Greater Israel. We cannot continue agreeing to shrinking this vision of a Greater Israel. An Eretz Yisrael without Hebron, Tel Aviv, Hadera and Shechem is not complete”.
Just earlier in the week in his address to the Herzliya Conference Minister Lapid spoke of his separation plan to “divorce from the PA (Palestinian Authority)”. Lapid spoke of the need to abandon areas of Yehuda and Shomron, and to halt construction outside of settlement blocs for in his vision, those areas will be given to the PA in a future agreement.
Piron cited how the left-wing blames the settlements for a lack of money for Israel’s poor, blaming ongoing construction in Yehuda and Shomron for many of Israel’s financial woes. Piron feels Israel does not have to chose between borders, opting for a democratic society that maintains the traditions of the past while simultaneously incorporating modern values of today.
Piron does not agree with Lapid, for he views the residents of Yehuda and Shomron as patriots and not the cause growing national poverty. The minister explains that brothers should and must come together to address economic issues and not be at odds with one another.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Greater Israel died with the 1992 elections.
i thought it was the chareidims fault that israel doesnt have money
i guess yesh atid loves to blame everyone except themselves
… From one rasha to another..
Piron Did an op and the pictures need to be updated
charliehall,learn your history from Tanach and not from the NYT. Future Eretz Israel will be from Euphrates River till the Nile. Given your voting patterns, wishes, and political views, you may not get to see this fulfilled. But rest assured neither the NYT nor the US State Department, nor Obama, nor the charliehalls of the world will be consulted in the matter.
lbj, we’re not talking about the Charedi MK’s.