Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke in the Knesset on Monday at the 40-signature debate requested by the opposition, addressing a range of issues: the draft law, a state commission of inquiry, Israel’s standing in the world, relations with the US and Russia, and more.
Netanyahu first addressed the title the opposition chose for the debate, “The collapse of Israel’s international standing.”
“The collapse of Israel’s international standing? What a disconnect there is here from reality, what a recycling of hollow slogans that are the complete opposite of everything that is actually happening,” Netanyahu asserted. “The State of Israel today is stronger than ever.”
Regarding the draft law, Netanyahu claimed that the current version is the beginning of a historic process of integrating the Chareidi public into the IDF, alongside regulating the status of full-time lomdei Torah.
After shouts began from the opposition, Netanyahu responded, “The Olam HaTorah has preserved us for thousands of years and will continue to preserve us in combination with the draft.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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He only really cares that it is protesting his political career.
He was never for any of this to begin with, the terrorist criminal repugnant Attorney General is behind this entire thing. The one they can’t fire and the one protecting The Advocate General at this very moment. The whole country is at each other’s throats and many Jews cursing our beloved rabbis all because of this woman she will pay for each one