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Against the background of assessments in the political system according to which the chairman of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, will resign as part of a plea deal to close his trial, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addressed the issue at the Yesh Atid faction meeting and said that “the government will persist because it is not dependent on Netanyahu.”
He said, “The government depends on joint action. It depends on the fact that we have formed a government that connects Israeli society instead of all the splits, rifts and incitement. No one from outside holds the government.”
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Lapid on the recruitment law: “Not an anti-Haredi law”
Lapid later referred to the draft law that will be put to a vote in the Knesset plenum today, and claimed that this is not an “anti-Haredi” law, but will help them integrate into the market. “This government and this party, there is a future, continue to keep their promises. Today, the Equality in Burden Law will be put to a vote in the first reading. For ten years we stood at demonstrations and intersections and promised that this day would come. We promised and kept,” Lapid said. “The law has undergone quite a few incarnations, but the principle remains the same: there is no such thing as rights without duties. We all have a responsibility for the fate of the state. For national security. We all have a duty to protect our children and provide for our children.”
He said, “This is not a perfect law, but it will lead to more ultra-Orthodox enlisting, more ultra-Orthodox going to national service, and many, many more ultra-Orthodox entering the labor market and being part of the Israeli economy. This is not an anti-Haredi law, it is a law for the State of Israel. That they serve in the IDF and in the national service does not make them suckers. They need to know that there is such a thing as a common destiny. “
“The wording of the law that will go to the polls today was written by Defense Ministry officials. It is not a law written by politicians. We went with the wording of the Ministry of Defense that the goal is not to quarrel, but to resolve a painful issue that is tearing Israeli society apart.” “We promised that we would not stop or be silent or rest until it happened, and indeed we did not stop. Like most things in this government this law is the product of a rare partnership of very different people who know how to work together.”
“I would like to thank Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman for an opportunity to send him a card of congratulations on a speedy recovery, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Once again we are rewriting history, together,” he concluded. “This government is making moves that for years and years no one has dared to touch. In security, in the economy, in Israeli society. This is the power of the center. Instead of slogans, practical compromises that bring results. Promise and keep.”
Asked by Srugi whether Michaeli is afraid of a right-wing ouster in another government with the right-wing bloc in the opposition, she says: “We have been proving for months that full right-wing and left-wing cooperation can be hindered. Very central to this government. “
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