According to a Yisrael Hayom report, Bayit HaYehudi leader Naftali Bennett has turned down ‘generous offers’ in coalition talks towards establishing a new government. The report explains that Likud sources feel Bennett is being influenced by ‘outside considerations’, some of them looking in the direction of Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party as the two work together to lock the chareidim out of the coalition.
Likud officials are using terms including “childish” to describe the behavior of Bayit Yehudi officials as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is clearly frustrated as week two of coalition talks winds down without signs of a new government.
While the prime minister prefers a broad-based coalition with a solid majority, it appears increasingly clear that he may have to opt for the inclusion of Bennett and Lapid or the chareidim, for the to do not seem compatible at present.
In the meantime, reports of “secret meetings” between Bennett and Shas leader Eli Yishai continue to circulate as Yishai appears not to have abandoned his efforts to bring Bennett on board to form a religious block in Knesset of 30 seats. Bennett however signals his unwillingness to turn his back on his ally, Yair Lapid. Their two combined parties have 31 seats.
Yated Neeman reports that Bayit Yehudi was offered the education portfolio, a senior economic appointment, another cabinet post and deputy defense minister, but Bennett declined the offer.
In the coming weeks we will see if the new generation MKs will remain true to their announced commitment to an agenda and voters, or if the rookie MKs will follow their Knesset forefathers and explain away the compromise towards accepting cabinet posts and entering the coalition. If the former is true, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may be working in the framework of a narrow coalition that will constantly have to concern itself with no-confidence motions.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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And yesterday the Bayit Hayehudi denied the report stating that NO offer had been made and that this was just a spin to try to split Bennett and Lapid.
In my mind Bennet is a worse than Lapid.
Both KNOW THE TRUTH that the Charedim are abused financially and culturally, and not the opposite… but they like the attention they’re getting from the lying media and left.
Check it out and prove me wrong:
1. Charedim have more rich tax payers per capita than chilonim.
2.Chareidim have about the same business owners per capita than chilonim.
3. A chareidi childs educaion costs the government between 7% to 15% of what they spend on a chiloni child! not a penny more!
4.The chilonim get besides the millions for universities, millions for drama, sports, and all kinds of stupidities! amounts to billions and billions.
5. The state controlled media doesn’t give not a fraction of time to the chareidim to voice themselves, to have their own programs, while their media is state sponsered – Which leads to the difficulty of a chareidi to get a job in the chiloni job market (compair that to the relatively easy and friendly way a frum Jew gets a job in America…)
…and much more…
“In the coming weeks we will see if the new generation MKs will remain true to their announced commitment to an agenda and voters, or if the rookie MKs will follow their Knesset forefathers and explain away the compromise towards accepting cabinet posts and entering the coalition.”
Rodef Kesef Lo Yisba Kesef. We may have someone in the Knesset who is not a Rodef Kesef. Finally.
Bennett/Lapid are demanding conscription – not just cutting off money to yeshiva students who don’t serve in the army, but actually conscripting the talmidim or throwing them in prison.
Likud with goes along with them, or decides to form a coalition with the Hareidim and the center-left parties (Labor, Livni and what’s left of Kadimah). However that coaltion will mean much more liberal economic policies (which hareidim favor, i.e. generous welfare), and a more critical attitude towards the settlers. Going along with the Likud-Bennett-Lapid coalition, however, creates a danger that those excluded will in the next election be predisposed to offering a left-center-hareidi block, which given the relative growth rates of hareidim and Arabs could come to power. Also note that a left-center coalition would probably be more open to ending conscription or recognizing religious/ethical conscientious objections to military service.
So this coalition may set an alighnment for the next generations. Nethanyhu prefers a Right-Center-Hareidi coalition, but the nationalists can’t stand the hareidim.
Israeli newspapers are reporting that the Bayit Hayehudi later stated that ‘tens of hours’ after said offer had been reported in the press and had been denied the Likud informed them that it was in deed an offer. The Bayit Hayehudi voiced displeasure at being informed of an offer to them tens of hours after the press, and stated that they would not discuss ‘seats’ until an agreement on substantive issues had been reached.
Everyone and every party will compromise and change their Election Agenda….that is no surprise.
That is politics!! I guess if no government is formed the next one in line is Lapid to form a government..
#2, and who has more colorful baloons? Be’kitzur. denial is not a place in Egypt.
MDshweks (#2): Those are some pretty bold claims. Can you please provide proof and sources of your statements?
By the way, there’s a HUGE number of people in this country that are in between your assumption that there are only chareidim and chilonim here. You should consider the fact that the statistics need to be considered between the chareidim vs EVERYONE else!
Figures never lie but liars always figure.
HaBayit HaYehudi is, allegedly, religious; Yesh Atid is not only “secular” but ANTI-religion (The bad Lapid apple doesn’t fall far from the tree).
HaBayit is “right wing,” favoring a freer economy; Yesh is leftist, favoring MORE governemnt intervention in the economy to ensure “fairness.”
HaBayit favors restructurring a High Court that it sees as having too much power; Yesh supports the current structure, power and appointment process.
HaBayit opposes a two-state solution; Yesh unequivicably supports it, at least in principal.
Politically it would seem that these two have nothing in common. So what is the glue that holds them together? Their hatred for chareidim, so virulent, so bilious that it overrides every other issue.
Frankly, those of you of the religious zionists who share this view, you are fools. Beware: YOU are next. The secularists don’t respect your religious sensibilities NOW, what makes you think it would be any better if c”v they succeed (with YOUR help) in crushing the chareidim?
Do you think they will reward you? Do you think they will leave you be? Remember all those communites and settlements that they have evacuated by force, driving good yidden from their homes for the crime of being Jews? They were not chareidim… they were mizrachi! They were YOU!
The goal of the secularist has always been and remains to rip the Torah out of the hearts of Jews and replace it with a socialist, nationalist, etho/cultural definition of who/what is a Jew. Not just the “chareidi” Torah
but “your” Torah too.
I beg and beseach you: do NOT side with the haters of Torah
MDshweks
I THINK you mean that even though chareidi children represent about 25% of students, they receive only about 15% of the funding.
This would still represent significant UNDER funding (40% less per student). However, there are segments of the chareidi community (e.g. Satmar) that REFUSE state money for their schools. This might account for some of the discrepancy.
Additionally, the government penalizes those schools that do not teach the full state approved curriculum (which the majority of chareidi schools do not). This also has to be considered.
That said, the facts DO disprove the false argument that subsidizing chareidi education “costs more.”
TorahMoshe- “They were not chareidim… they were mizrachi! They were YOU!”
That is our problem. It is not US and YOU. It is 1 nation 1 Halacha. When they were throwing Jews out of their homes it was JEWS. It was against Halacha. Soo this problem works both ways. The YOU should have been with the US. The “Haredi” parties should have protested and made it a big deal. BUT NO. We have wayy to much sinat hinam and not enough respect and love for each other. And that is why we all get ——-
Toras Moshe – there are those who will always favor Toras Hashem, Kiddush Hashem and Pleasantness of Torah.
Here comes the truth:
1. The chareidim want all the benefits of being in the State of Israel without any of the responsibilities.
2. The chareidim don’t think of Datiim as religious Jews at all, but now suddenly have “rediscovered” the Jewishness of the Datiim for the sake of political expediency.
3. Yesh Atid is not anti-religious at all. Nothing Lapid has said and nothing in the Yesh Atid platform amounts to an anti-Torah agenda. What Yesh Atid does want, however, flies in the face of the chareidi agenda, which therefore marks him as yet another victim of character assassination.
4. It is quite laughable to hear chareidi rants about Bennett joining with Lapid. At least Bennett has ideological integrity. He is willing to risk being in the opposition in order to stand on his principles. The chareidi parties will join up with anyone or anything – even the most truly anti-Torah of elements – in order to maintain their untenable status quo.