MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Yaakov Litzman explains to the media that Yahadut Hatorah did not receive any offers to enter the current coalition in the hope of saving it and avoiding elections. He told Kikar Shabbos that reports to the contrary are simply political hype and manipulation.
The media reported Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reached out to the chareidim in the hope of bringing them in to save the coalition and thereby avoid national elections. This new coalition would have included Yisrael Beitenu but Yediot Achronot reported that the party headed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is using its veto power to keep the chareidim out as the party feels if the coalition collapses then elections is the only option.
Litzman on Sunday 15 Kislev told Kikar Shabbos that no such deal was in the works and clearly, the nation must head to the polls. He explains early elections are forced on the nation “due to the failures of the coalition including a total collapse of the financial matters headed by Yair Lapid, including the failure to bring about a surge in the housing industry or lower the cost of living.
Litzman stated Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed in his efforts to lead the nation and it is equally clear that the coalition faction heads are unable to remain in the same coalition with one-another. “The bad blood and arguments between them has brought the 19th Knesset to the end of its term” he added.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Bayit Yehudi and Yisrael Beiteinu have made oppression of the hareidi community their number one priority. That is why they prefer a coalition with “centrists” parties even though it requires making concessions on security matters. The hareidim will support any coalition that tolerate them (meaning doesn’t conscript them and doesn’t support discriminatory laws directed at them), so if Bayit Yehudi and Yisrael Beiteinu saw the Arabs (rather than the hareidim) as Israel’s primary enemy, they would gladly welcome the hareidim into the coalition. (allowing hareidim to learn in peace, so the Israeli right can continue to rule much of the West Bank).