Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman was interviewed tonight (Wednesday) on News 13 and referred to talk of another closure in the face of rising corona morbidity and said: “I think we see the situation, there are 88 critically ill patients with 90 per cent unvaccinated. “To remove the blockade from the agenda, it will hurt us.” He went on to address the chief rabbi’s threat that he would not advance conversions in Israel if the government’s outline for reform in the industry continued to advance.
On the consumer boycott against Osem in the face of rising prices, the Minister of Finance said that he “calls on producers and consumers to act responsibly. What will determine here in the end is the public. I do not call for boycotting anyone. In the end Osem is a private company.” The public. I, as finance minister, can not call on private producers to lower prices. ”
On the poverty report he said: “We understand and do what they did not do. We helped all the weaker sections and the expression for this will be in the coming months, with an additional NIS 480 on average that they will receive. In addition, there will be a fifty percent increase in soldiers’ salaries starting in January.
Next, he addressed the threat of the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi David Lau, Not to sign the conversion certificates in light of the rabbinate’s opposition to the outline of the government. The chief rabbi said that he would work to remove his responsibility from everything that was done in the conversion system. In a letter sent this morning to Rabbi Lau, Lieberman threatened that it would be inevitable to take steps required by conduct that is inappropriate for the tenure.
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“Converts cannot be hostages of the ultra-Orthodox establishment,” Lieberman stated. According to him, in his conduct, the chief rabbi violates the rules of proper administration because he is a civil servant. “The chief rabbi is violating the directives of the state and the courts. I wrote a letter asking to suspend the chief rabbi. It does not make sense for a chief rabbi, who is a civil servant, to threaten the minister in charge of him.”
The Minister of Finance also referred to the meeting of the Minister of Defense Bnei Gantz andHead of the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen, In his house in Rosh HaAyin. “I have never met with Abu Mazen,” he said. “As defense minister, I met with the security services,” he said. At the same time, he criticized Ganz and said: “I do not think it is possible to hold the stick from both ends: on the one hand to be defense minister and on the other hand to sue soldiers in The Hague.”
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