Yahadut Hatorah was hopeful it would receive seven seats in the elections but this was not the case. It only received six seats and as a result, Yaakov Asher is out of the 20th Knesset.
However party officials remain hopeful he will resume his activities on behalf of the tzibur at large, requesting to make him a deputy minister. If this is approved, Asher will be a cabinet member but not a Member of Knesset.
According to a Channel 10 News report by Raviv Drucker, the party’s conditions for entering a coalition include no less than 75 requests to change existing legislation. The requests for change include appointing a deputy minister who is not a MK. Today, the law permits appointing a minister who is not a MK, but not a deputy minister. Yahadut Hatorah wants to expand that law to include deputy ministers as well as ministers.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Attitudes to a Government are made or broken during the era of Government forming
The Attitudes beginning to develop amongst the much of the public is to indifferently shrug and yawn at this government (,build on the dissensions)and wait for it to eventually pass
All this head in the sand haggling may score a point for the small parties’ constituents but is turning off the public,especially the white collar crowd
Very problematic and a probable bellweather of coming trouble
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli