In what some feel may be the beginning of a mending of fences, chareidi MKs Moshe Gafne and Amnon Cohen on Wednesday, 13 Sivan, had words of praise for Bayit Yehudi leader Minister Naftali Bennett. The Yahadut Hatorah and Shas MKs praised the minister’s efforts to bring additional chareidim into the workplace including the ranks of the nation’s civil service employees. They praised his bill seeking to bring additional chareidim into the public sector.
“I also want to give credit to the Minister of the Economy for a change,” said Gafne. “To your credit, you supported the recent government decision, as well as in the ministerial committee on Sunday, regarding our bill”.
MK Cohen spoke of Bennett’s actions to arrange for a round table discussion on chareidi employment at his behest.
Gafne pointed out that ironically, during the election campaign Yesh Atid MKs accused chareidim of not going to work and not wishing to work. However it was the Yesh Atid ministers on the committee voting against the bill which intends to give more chareidim jobs.
From the dati leumi side of the political fence MK (Bayit Yehudi) Yoni Chetboun and former Yesha Council leader Dani Dayan are both calling to bring chareidim into the coalition. The two feel that Shas and Yahadut Hatorah should be brought in to replace The Movement and Yesh Atid.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
Good news.
Perhaps the rhetoric on both sides has come to an end and bridges between Torah kehillos can be built. With success.
#1 What exactly is the “good news”? Don’t fool yourself and don’t be so naive. The only way it can come to an end and charedim can go to work is if they’ll abolish conscription completely, something Lapid AND Bennett would not agree.
I agree with bklynmom. 🙂
I agree with #1 bklynmom that it’s good news that the rhetoric has cooled, but feel it necessary to point out that most of the rhetoric has been spouted by only one side – and it wasn’t Bayit Yehudi. A bit of maturity by the Chareidi parties would have gone a long way. Just because we have differences does not mean we need to be uncivil.
an Israeli Yid
#3 you agree with brooklyn mom?? you also agree with Barack Obama.