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In an interview with the Knesset Channel, MK Yaakov Litzman stated Yahadut Hatorah would not enter a coalition government that includes Yair Lapid. Litzman added that if Lapid sits in opposition for a term and does not continue his hostile activities against the chareidi tzibur they may be room for discussion in the future.
Litzman stressed that his statement are of course subject to the approval of the Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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By saying that your statements are subject to the approval of the Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael you are staying that you haven’t yet asked their opinion and are just shooting of your mouth.
… Best keep quite till they tell you what to say.
You may end up having to eat your words and then it’ll cost the chareidi tzibur dearly
1. Degel ha-Torah will only join a government that cancels conscription, and will probably support any government that agrees to do that. Given the choice between joining a government that includes Lapid but doesn’t draft hareidim, or being in opposition and have the yeshivos closed down as the students are conscripted or arrests, Degel ha-Torah will join any government.
Lapid may be desperate enough to join a government that plans to undo what he considers to be his greatest achievement.
I bet that they would, no matter what is said.
The absurdity of all this childish behavior in the tragic comedy that is Israeli politics, is if you listen to each comment about who wont service with whom, it would be impossible to form a government.
My contention is that the manner in which Chareidi politicians (mis)handle things and their scorched earth policy whenever someone disagrees with them and their constant demands, led to Lapid’s rise to begin with.
BarryLS1 : What led to “Lapid’s rise” goes back to 1948. The Hareidim thought that Ben Gurion agreed to allow hareidim to exist in the zionist state, and Ben Gurion thought the Hareidim had agreed to become more modern. In all truth, had Ben Gurion known that hareidim woujld grow and prosper under zionists he would have thrown them in concentration camps or expelled them. If the hareidm at the time could have seen what the medinah has become, they would have opposed Israel independence and would have actively supported the alternatives (e.g. an American trusteeship).
The years of 1948 – 1970 saw more Charedim working than ever before…
akuperma: Where do you get that nonsense from? American trusteeship? Are you smoking something? It was either what they got or 1929 Chevron on a much bigger scale. Besides, they got what they wanted…..$$$$$$. Isn’t that what they cared about most?
Nu, he won’t sit with Bennett, he won’t sit with Lapid, and when he finds himself in the opposition again he’ll howl that it’s because of anti-charedi discrimination.