Days before the opening of the Knesset’s summer session, the ultra-Orthodox factions are preparing for the fall of the Bennett-Lapid government and tensions in the Knesset corridors are rising.
If until recently he removed the senior members of Torah Judaism who called for the formation of a government in the current Knesset, even if not led by Benjamin Netanyahu, then tonight similar voices began to be heard in the Shas party.
Meanwhile, opposition leader Netanyahu is trying to calm the spirits in Torah Judaism, and at noon he met with Chairman Moshe Gafni.
So far, Netanyahu has been quiet on the part of the Shas movement.
But behind the scenes, it seems that even among senior Shas officials, frustration with the situation is growing, ten months since the ultra-Orthodox factions left the coalition benches in favor of the opposition benches, from where they watch government decrees in religion and state and economy.
In a conversation with Kikar Hashabat, one of the prominent Knesset members in Shas said: “Obviously Gafni is right, do you have a doubt? It is forbidden to go to the opposition just because of Netanyahu, look what prices we are paying. “
He said: “We went after Netanyahu 4 elections, this is also what our public wanted, it was rightly and not by grace, but it is not possible that we will go into the unknown again just because Netanyahu can not form a government – even if his claims are true, Gafni is right that needs mental reckoning. “.
The MK emphasized: “Unlike Gafni, we will not launch a ‘campaign’ on the issue, what Deri thinks – and he thinks just as Gafni and Netanyahu know it – he will tell Netanyahu in private, not in the media.”
“We must also remember,” the Sephardic MK added: “Unlike Torah Judaism, we have seats of Mizrahis who are not ultra-Orthodox. They want Shas and Netanyahu’s right-wing Judaism. “Bibi needs a strong lion ‘in the hope that he will really succeed in forming a government. If that does not happen, Netanyahu himself must understand that it is time to take a step back, allow the right and the ultra-Orthodox to form a government, even if not under his leadership.”