It appears there is a feeling among some that Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin, who portrays himself as being shomer shabbos, may have an anti-religious agenda.
According to a BaKehilla report, the speaker is responsible for determining which requests for urgent queries will pass his desk and be approved, permitting them to be addressed in Knesset in an expeditious fashion. Four or five of every 20 requests are approved and frum MKs feel he routinely pushes their queries to the side, while accepting others.
Some examples of queries accepted by Rivlin as ‘urgent’ this week are;
The activities of JNF in the Negev (MK Danon-Likud); an assault against a family in Tirah (MK Tibi- Ta’al); a list of vehicles belonging to left-wing activists (MK Oron-Meretz); addressing the expiration of equal rights bill (MK Ghilon-Meretz).
Some of the queries rejected include an attack against rabbonim in S. America (MK Ze’ev-Shas); a dispute surrounding an Ein Kerem school not permitting students to daven (MK Azoulai –Shas); and Concerns regarding the remaining Yemenite Jews (MK Azoulai-Shas).
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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It certainly sounds like he has an anti religious agenda.
And it is not the first time I have heard of someone who was supposedly religious being anti religious in their political views.
I once met someone from Israel who had an extremly leftist anti Torah attitude even though he himself wore a yamulka.