Outgoing MK Elazar Stern, who was not elected to the 20th Knesset, intervened on behalf of Knesset parliamentary aides and advisors who are about to be unemployed since they will not enter the 20th Knesset. Hence they must find others jobs in the coming weeks.
Stern, number 12 on the Yesh Atid list which only earned 11 seats, interceded on their behalf by turning to Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein to continue paying their salaries over Pesach. In his letter to Edelstein he explains on Tuesday, three days ahead of yomtov, the aides will be unemployed. He feels the timing was particularly difficult, asking if there is any way to pay them till Sunday 23 Nissan, after yomtov.
While Stern is currently out of the new Knesset, according to a tweet sent by Channel 2 political correspondent Amit Segal, Yesh Atid MK Yaakov Peri is going to resign from Knesset to permit Stern to enter. This is yet to occur.
While cabinet ministers are generally Members of Knesset as well, they do not have to be.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Im ain Torah, ain kemach!!!
Stern was by far the most anti-religious MK in the outgoing Knesset. While Lapid treid to destroy Chareidi society, Stern attempted to destroy the any religious character of the state. It’s thanks to him that Shabbos observance and the state Geirus took a turn for the drastically worse. We should daven that he does not return.
What nonsense. They are unemployed because the voters decided they did not want Yesh Atid to have more than 11 members of Knesset. Their jobs came to an end. Why should the taxpayers subsidize Yesh Atid. If Stern feels so strongly about it, let Yesh Atid pay all the Knesset parliamentary aides and advisors who are about to be unemployed, for whoever they were working until jow.
#3 Avreimi – What about the employees of Yahadut HaTorah, which went from seven to six seats, or Shas, which went from 11 to seven? This proposal would benefit them too.
I’m not a fan of MK Stern (to put it mildly), but this particular proposal has nothing to do with those policies that the Frum world finds so objectionable.
an Israeli Yid