The opposition recorded another victory over the coalition today (Wednesday) after a counter-proposal for the Minister of Communications’ kosher telephone reform Joaz Handel Approved in the Knesset plenum in a preliminary reading despite opposition from the government. The proposal, submitted by an MK Moshe Arbel And allows the subscriber to request blocking and restriction of content, won a majority of 57 supporters against 43 opponents and will be referred to the Knesset committee for discussion.
The coalition claims that the Meretz faction was confused and voted in favor of the law, after the chairman of the Meretz faction Michal Rosin She shouted by mistake during the vote “for” and then MKs in Meretz who were around her, including the MKs Gabi Lasky, Ali Salala and Jida Rinawi Zoabi Confused and voted in favor, while the MKs Musi Raz and Yair Golan Vote against. Meretz admitted by mistake, but noted that in any case the opposition had a majority of two supporters.
Subsequently, another proposal from the opposition submitted by the MK was approved in advance Uri Maklev According to which large stores will be able to sell alcohol even after 23:00 at night, if it is part of a large purchase, by a majority of 16 MKs who supported in front of two who opposed. The proposal will be discussed in the Knesset committee.
The bill proposes to establish various arrangements that will slightly alleviate the existing ban on the sale of alcohol after 11pm in large stores. It is proposed that the sale of wine in large stores will be possible after 23:00. It is also proposed to stipulate that in these stores, which are usually not located in the city centers, it will be possible to purchase other alcoholic beverages even after 23:00, provided that the purchase includes additional products worth twice or more than the value of alcohol. This is to allow the purchase of alcoholic beverages when their purchase is part of a routine purchase of groceries for the household.
MK Yinon Azulai on Handel’s kosher cellular reform (Photo: Knesset Channel)
The previous bill proposes to allow a subscriber to request a licensee for the provision of communication services to restrict or block the subscriber’s access to communication services or communication equipment as specified in the proposed section, including a restriction set by a third party specified by the subscriber in his application.
The explanatory memorandum to the proposal reads: “This bill seeks to protect the freedom given to each person to voluntarily restrict the communication services and equipment he uses in agreement with the providers and distributors of the communication services and the accompanying equipment. This arrangement is intended to protect the personal balance that each person may create. To himself between the usefulness of communication services and the danger that exists in them.
“Unfortunately, we anticipate attempts by owners of various bodies to impose their personal worldview on the scope of the restrictive measures that various groups in Israeli society are interested in taking, and disrupt the mechanisms that maintain the quality of these measures. Abolishing the free will of the individual and questioning his ability to choose the good for himself.
“These attempts undermine liberal ideas that underlie Western democracy, regarding the autonomy of the individual and the recognition of the individual’s wisdom to choose his own path without harming another, such as his right to be guided by the guides he believes in.
“This bill came to protect the individual from the state by shaping its citizens according to a uniform pattern without the various sensitivities that exist in Israeli society regarding family values, the destiny of a person in the world, learning to adhere to certain values and the extent of anxiety about certain content and behaviors.”
Yoaz Handel (Photo: Yonatan Zindel)Chairman of Shas Aryeh Deri He said after the law was approved: “The Minister of Communications, who does not pass the blocking percentage, received a winning answer in the plenum today, when the Shas Freedom of Laws Telephones Law was approved in the plenum. Get out of our lives!
Minister Handel wrote in response: “600 Sephardic girls are not accepted into Ashkenazi institutions. They sit ashamed at home. A committee of rabbis who blocks Rabbi Yosef’s Torah lessons. “Yours. Dealing with a preliminary proposal that does not change anything. A parody.”
600 Sephardic girls are not admitted to Ashkenazi institutions. Shy sitting at home.
A committee of rabbis who blocked Rabbi Yosef’s Torah lessons.
And a Sephardic rabbinical committee that you started to establish and were frightened.
And you’re sitting at home and scared of Gore’s activists.Preserves their hegemony at the expense of your public.
Dealing with a preliminary proposal that does not change anything.
A parody. https://t.co/UiXJqQJBRE
– Yoaz Hendel Yoaz Hendel (@ YoazHendel1) June 15, 2022
Chairman of Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni In response to the coalition’s defeat in passing the law to repeal the kosher telephone reform: “You do not have its Dashmia faction, you do not succeed in anything, the public is not with you, even those who are not members of the ultra-Orthodox and traditional public ! “.
MK Uri Maklev He said: ‘Despite the arrogance of the Minister of Communications, we have seen signs and wonders here in approving the law, the Minister of Communications has been humiliated and all the people of Israel have seen that there is no majority in the people for its destructive reforms – I ask coalition members. There is no market failure here! “
ח״כ Jacob Tessler He added: “The opposition’s victory in approving the bill to repeal the kosher cellular destruction led by Minister Handel proves that our strength is in our unity. “For kosher communication services tailored to the needs of the ultra-Orthodox public. Your arrogance will not defeat the values that are important to us.”
MK Israel Eichler He said: “On Monday, the law of communication passed, on the nose and in the wrath of the impudent minister Handel opening his mouth against the Torah scholars and its observers at all times. He acts as a fierce fighter, against the democratic and Jewish right of the ultra-Orthodox public to a kosher phone call. In the hope that his decree would be repealed; “When you begin to fall, you will fall and fall.”