The Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah of Shas met on Wednesday evening for a discussion on the future of the Shas party after the government failed to advance a Chareidi draft law.
The Rabbanim made a decision at the meeting that Shas will resign from the government but will continue to be part of the coalition for the time being.
In addition, it was reported that the Shas ministers and MKs will not support no-confidence motions against the government in order to allow the prime minister to continue his attempts to pass the draft law.
Now that Shas has joined the UTJ in leaving the government, along with the symbolic resignation of Noam’s Avi Moaz, the coalition of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is left with only 49 MKs, without a majority in the Knesset.
Shas ministers will resign from their positions but MKs were instructed to remain in their positions on Knesset committees. According to sources in the party, the purpose of the decision is to send a clear message regarding the importance of the draft law without leading to the immediate fall of the government.
The Minister of Religious Services, Michael Malkieli, said after the meeting that the decision to withdraw from the government came due to the persecution of lomdei Torah. “In the current situation, it is not possible to sit in the government and be a partner to it. Shas will not act against the coalition—we will not cooperate with the left.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Remember all these decisions are Guided by Gedolei Torah and nobody’s personal opinions should be mixed in as if they matter. Unfortunately you have modern bloggers like fuld waging a smudge campaign against rabbinical psak to get more popularity with his secular opinion circles and chilonim, and he’s risking his olam haba for it trying to pass himself as a posek. Be very careful not to side with these treif opinions!