Chairman of the Yisrael Beitenu party MK Avigdor Lieberman instructed his party’s MKs on Thursday, the first day of the new Knesset, to present his draft bill, giyur bill, the cancelation of the Shabbos Law which permits the national government to override local government and order the closure of stores on Shabbos, the Secular Education Bill to compel yeshivos to teach secular subjects, civil marriage bill, and Shabbos bus service in non-frum areas as he promised he was going to do.
For Lieberman it is clear, and he explains that he is simply going to do as he promised his party would do in the new Knesset. Lieberman feels that the Interior Ministry does not have the right to close stores after local government has decided to the contrary, for the national government should not be making decisions impacting the lives of local municipalities, such as in this case.
The same holds true with bus service on Shabbos, as Lieberman explains he does not wish to have buses run in religious areas, but on the same note, there is no reason the many non-religious residents of the country are entitled to bus service on Shabbos and the buses would only run in those areas, serving the many residents who do not have vehicles, a move that would significantly cut down on drunken drivers on Friday nights.
On Thursday morning, Lieberman met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Lieberman however has reiterated he has no plan of entering a right-wing/chareidi coalition, and this has not changed. He continues calling for a broad-based liberal national unity coalition including Likud, Blue & White and his party, excluding the religious and chareidi parties.
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“Lieberman feels that the Interior Ministry does not have the right to close stores after local government has decided to the contrary, for the national government should not be making decisions impacting the lives of local municipalities, such as in this case.“
I wonder if the same holds true for defense ministry when Bnei Brak et al has decided that בחורים don’t have to go to the army
really retroactively are now abolishing the original status quo gave the state legitimacy in the eyes of much of world jewry
now forfeit the right to any Allegiance from the religious citizens
Even yair lapid Wouldn’t dare do this all
It’s pure hypocrisy and simple hyperbole! On the one hand he states he wants a broad cross-section of all Israel’s peoples yet he wants it to be with the exclusion of religious parties! Are the religious not part of the broad cross-section that he talks about? He’s a confused man.
Once more the religious acceptance of the state which leadership understood to be absolutely necessary as even Less observant Jews around the world to accept The state
predicated as a minimum
Closing stores on the Shabbat and religious marriages
goes back even before the draft
even before the state
back to the British mandate
Shouldn’t then the state as a bare minimum change its name
Let us all doven that each of his children be chozer b’teshuva just like his charedi son, HaShem yaarich yomov, and then that Reb Avigdor follow after them.