Jerusalem and Heritage Minister Meir Porush and Deputy Transportation Minister Uri Maklev both resigned on Monday from the Knesset in accordance with the Norwegian Law, allowing two more UTJ members to serve as Knesset members.
The ninth member on the UTJ list, Moshe Roth, entered the Knesset in place of Porush. Roth, who is a representative of the Sanzer chassidus, will be serving in his first term in the Knesset.
Eliyahu Baruchi, the tenth member on the UTJ list, will enter the Knesset in place of Maklev.
Porush’s office noted that after “being appointed by the government this week as being responsible for the Lag B’Omer event at Meron and for the implementation of the recommendations of the State Commission of Inquiry into the Meron Disaster, he chose to free his time from the work of the Knesset in order to focus on his work in the Jerusalem and Heritage Ministry.”
A statement from Maklev’s office stated: “In order to strengthen the representation of Degel HaTorah in the Knesset, Deputy Minister Uri Maklev implemented the Norwegian law, thereby bringing Eliyahu Baruchi into the Knesset. The Norwegian law allows a deputy minister in the government to bring in another Knesset member from his party to fill his place in the work of the Knesset.”
Earlier this month, Housing Minister Yitzchak Goldknopf resigned from the Knesset, allowing Degel HaTorah representative Yitzchak Pindrus to serve as a Knesset member.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This explains Netanyahu’s “heavy heart” over Deri being banned from the cabinet. They get to dispense patronage to two or more additional ministers, while Deri remains a political leader than Netanyahu needs to consult, and at the same time major allies are reminded of the need for changing the law to take away from the Israeli Supreme Court the power to make decisions based on what the judges think is politically desirable rather than based on law (i.e. make it more like the United States Supreme Court, and unlike the Imperial Privy Council upon which the Israeli Supreme Court was modeled).
Who set up this messed up system of government?
Who set up this messed up system of government??
Why do you think its ‘messed up”?? Bibi has also divided the responsibilities of 7 former cabinet ministries into two sections along with allocating overlapping responsibility to several separate ministries to assure that everyone in the coalition is a “minister” and all can point the finger at someone else when something goes wrong. Its politically “brilliant” from the perspective of ego gratification and avoidance of responsibility. At the end, Bibi will smartly screw over the religious parties as he has done in the past, knowing that they have nowhere else to go. Thats why the opposition isn’t really all that worried about culture war issues, notwithstanding all their protestations.