Comments on: Litzman: Forget About Joining the Coalition

By: Yagel Libi

Yagel Libi — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 04:08:49 +0000

It was clear from the get-go that: (a) this government was going to (finally) seriously address the issues of Israel’s charedi society (i.e., military/national service, preparation for/integration into the workplace, weaning off of government handouts) and (b) that UTJ could not be seen as agreeing milechatchilla with what must be done, so (c) they will be sitting in the opposition for a few years. It will be a while then before anyone offers UTJ to join the coalition and the government. In the meantime I suppose we must resign ourselves to a steady diet of theatrics from UTJ MKs.

By: akuperma

akuperma — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:59:51 +0000

If the Likud ( presumably together with Bayit Yehudi) agree to end conscription, and to drop any policies targetted at hareidim, I’m sure that Degel ha-Torah, Agudah and Shas would jump at the chance to join the government, and with far fewer demands on Likud than Yesh Atid or Livni make. Unless Labor is willing to offer to get rid of conscription, there isn’t really any value of a new election since it will still lead to an anti-hareidi coalition unless Likud can be persuaded to compromise.

By: badchradyjew

badchradyjew — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:01:05 +0000

Lets get all the rabbi we can