Bentzi Robin, knitted news13.12.22 10:28 19:00 in Kislo Tishpag
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu attacks Yair Lapid’s words in the plenum, and emphasizes once again that “there will be no Halacha state” in the government being formed.
“I call on the members of the opposition to accept the people’s decision in the elections and to stop spreading intimidation and lies. I heard the outgoing prime minister say ‘only we pay taxes and only we serve in the army.’
“I don’t think comparisons should be made, but if Yair Lapid insists, I suggest he do a simple calculation: 32 mandates of Likud represent a public that all serve in the army, 12 mandates of religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit all serve in the army, a very large number of Shas voters serve in the army , not to mention the ultra-Orthodox public that serves in essential and rescue services. That’s 50 mandates that serve, and your public has 46 mandates. The attempt to divide and divide is fundamentally wrong.”
Regarding the demands of Torah Judaism in the negotiations, Netanyahu said: “There is and will be electricity on Shabbat, there is and will be bathing beaches for everyone. We will maintain the status quo – a man will live by his faith. There will not be a Halacha state here, there will be a state here that will take care of all the citizens of Israel without exception. We were chosen to lead in our own way, the way of the national right and the way of the liberal right and that’s how we will do it.”
As I recall, earlier today Lapid said: “I want to ask this mother who voted for Likud. Is this what you wanted? When you stood at the polling station and put a ballot for Mahl, is this what you voted for? that’s what you wanted? That with your vote the most extreme government in the country’s history will be established?”
“How do you feel about the fact that the first promise of the new government, the first thing they agreed on, is to pay Yeshiva students more money than IDF soldiers? How do you feel about the fact that public transportation in your city will cost more, just because you are not ultra-Orthodox? Because this is part of the agreements.”
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