The machlokes in Yahadut Hatorah regarding the distribution of jobs remains unresolved. This pertains to demands from the litvish Degel faction to receive an equal share of Knesset committees and other parliamentary tasks to the chassidish Agudas Yisrael faction. Agudas Yisrael is unwilling to go for an even split as the six man party is comprised of four from the Agudah faction and only two from Degel.
What has been decided is that Menachem Eliezer Moses of the Agudah faction will serve on the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee as well as the Knesset Education Committee. He will also serve as an alternate in the Finance Committee.
Yisrael Eichler (Agudah) will be on the Welfare & Social Services Committee and Health Committee as well as being an alternative on the Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee. He will chair the Ombudsman Committee.
Uri Maklev (Degel faction) will serve as a member of the Economic Committee, Interior Committee and Law Committee. Maklev chairs the Science Committee.
Moshe Gafne (Degel) heads the Finance Committee.
Meir Porush (Agudah) is Deputy Minister of Education and Yaakov Litzman (Agudah) Deputy Minister of Health with ministerial authority.
The machlokes surrounds the appointment to the Dayan Appointment Committee, which Agudah plans to give to Eichler while Degel feels it should receive it.
Agudah received membership if four Knesset committee and Degel only three. Agudah also received two alternate slots in committees, and Eichler received the positions he wanted. Degel is claiming it is getting a bad deal. The machlokes continues.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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4 Responses
Do not dignify this situation by calling it a machlokes. Rava and Abaye had machlokesim, this is just bickering.
Agudah is bigger, with a larger membership and voting base, than Degel.
This demonstrates the wisdom of the former policy of refusing government patronage, thereby keeping their hands clean, and focusing on getting concessions that helped the hareidi community.
P.S. And they have yet to get the conscription law cancelled, which is much more critical than MK’s getting a government car with a driver and other perqs.
goofus,
korach v’adaso also had maclokes
there’s machlokes l’sheim shamayim and machlokes shelo l’sheim shamayim