Attorney Osherat Levy did not think that her membership in the negotiating team dealing with the formation of a government would make so much noise, when a picture from the meeting was published and many journalists were concerned with the fact that the only woman from all the negotiating teams is actually from the Noam party.
“I was not surprised when I was asked to be part of the team, apart from the fact that I am a lawyer, the Noam party is the only party that has inscribed on its flag concern for Jewish education, which also happens to be very representative of my values, so I am honored to work with the party team.”
According to her, “When I left the meeting, I saw that journalists expressed astonishment that it was the Noam party that had hired a traditional (non-religious) woman attorney to represent them and take part in the negotiation team. But for me it’s the most natural. MK Avi Maoz is a serious person, in the past he was also a CEO.” For the Ministry of Housing and the Ministry of the Interior, he works with women and men without distinction. I’m sorry, as usual, there are elements in the media that, instead of focusing on the person’s actions or skills, they try to distort reality as if he is against women, and from this position they come out with mock amazement.
When MK Avi Maoz offered me to join, I immediately responded positively. I am very happy to be part of the inclusion of the Noam party in the coalition, in the 37th government of the State of Israel. I have no doubt, even as a mother, that this party will preserve the Jewish identity of the country in general and the education of our children in particular.” .
Levy added that “In regards to the feminists who write to me on social networks, I recommend that they deal with the products of the outgoing government or the lack of products of the outgoing government, and / or with the fact that there are mothers who only because they are ultra-Orthodox had their children’s daycare subsidies cut, or with the fact that in the previous government A Knesset elected with the voice of the feminists refused to vote in favor of increasing the punishment of rapists and only then would they take care of the female diversity in the right-wing parties.”