Yesh Atid party leader MK Yair Lapid has been noticeably audible this week as he spearheads the battle against efforts by chareidi parties to amend the chareidi draft law. This law was legislated by Yesh Atid and Bayit Yehudi in the last Knesset when the chareidim were in opposition. The chareidi parties are not working to eliminate the criminal sanctions component of the law. The effort to amend it enjoys the support of Defense Minister Mosh Ya’alon and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, but Lapid is not going to sit back and permit this to occur. He is enlisting other MKs from both the coalition and opposition in an effort to block the chareidi parties.
Yesh Atid hosted an urgent kenos this week for lawmakers who side with the party’s effort to prevent a change in the law, but the kenos was not well-attended. However this is not an indicator regarding support for the Yesh Atid effort, which does appear to have the backing of many MKs.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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“The reports of [his political] death have been greatly exaggerated.”
These unsubtle modes & methods are giving him combustible fuel that is being stored up and WILL be used in the coming election-Guaranteed!
Lapid is a product of a Zionist education which means he never learned what Yahadus is just liberal Marxist theology he is NOT a rasha he is a tinuk shenishba we frummer should bring him close with love.
#2 How far does the term “tinuk shenishba”supposed to go?
If so ,even the creme de la creme of the frum are also “tinuk shenishba”
Reports of his DEMISE
If Netanyahu enforces coalition discipline (demands all members of the coalition support something), then Netanyahu can do whatg he wants and the opposition (Lapid) is irrelevant.
Even if Lapid is a “tinok shenishba” and not a rasha, nevertheless, his words and deeds constitute “incitement” (“me’sis u’meidi’ach”) against Hashem and His Torah. We are obligated to oppose his incitement against the Torah with every legislative and spiritual means (more Torah and mitzvos) at our disposal. “Ve’laHashem ha’yeshua!”