The national budget of the Bennett-Lapid-Lieberman government was passed by the Knesset in the early hours of Thursday morning after an all-night voting session.
The budget, the first to be approved by the Knesset since 2018, was passed by a 61-59 vote at 5 a.m., ten days before the November 14 deadline.
Voting resumed in the Knesset on Thursday on the Economic Arrangements Law and the 2022 budget.
Chareidi MKs couldn’t hide their frustration overnight Wednesday, saying that the Bennett government is stable and “we’re facing years in the opposition,” Kikar H’Shabbat reported.
“They’re more stable than the right-wing governments,” a source from a Chareidi party said. “A prime minister and justice minister [Gideon Sa’ar] who barely pass the voting threshold [in the case of new elections]. What will cause them to go to elections?
And the left-wing parties are finally in power. It’s a very stable government. It doesn’t matter why it’s stable, the fact is that it’s stable.”
However, despite the gloomy predictions, joining the coalition doesn’t seem to be an option. “Yair Lapid is still sure that we’ll negotiate with him after the budget passes,” a UTJ MK told Kikar. “He’s making a mistake, he didn’t read the map right. Even those of us that criticize the behavior of Likud know we have nowhere to go. We should sit with Lieberman who hates Chareidim? With Matan Kahana, the destroyer of Judaism? With whom? And in general…we’re faithful to the right-wing bloc and those who keep the mesorah.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Any Likud leader other than Netanyahu would have won comfortably, just as any Republican nominee other than Trump would have won comfortably in the US. Having Bennett and Biden as leaders are the deserved consequences of turning the political Right into a personality cult.
Many Israeli nationalists place at least as much weight on being free of the yoke of Torah, as they place on being to lord over the Palestinians. Arguably, the original goal of zionism was to be be free of Yiddishkeit, and that view is shared by many “right wing” nationalists who see the building of a “modern” or “normal” state to require removing religious involvement in public life.
In the final analysis, if this continues, Satmar and Neturei Karta will have the last laugh. Bennett and Lapid are proving that the real Hareidim were right all along, zionism and Torah are not compatible.
@charliehall +1
It’s time to launch a massive global charidy campaign to cover the financial shortfall of this government of shame and danger. I am sure it can be done. The frum world is now big enough and b”h doing well financially.
It’s also time to wean off the chareidy mosdos from the Zionist money. Not because I am satmar (I am not, I support Agudah), but if we don’t take taxpayers money much of their complaint of being parasites falls away and would no longer bother calling us to the army etc. Of course we bring in millions into the Israeli economy, but they would never admit that.
@ akuperma
In the final analysis, if this continues, the Zionists will have the last laugh. Haredi MK’s are proving that the real Zionists were right all along, Haredeism and Menshlichkeit are not compatible.
@boruchbrown123:
When Mashiach comes, the entire world, including the Zionists, will renounce their idols.
But, even before that, everyone who is not bowing to this idol can clearly see, even more so since this new Zionist government has come to power with a guy who wears some kind of Kippah on his head, as opposed to his bare-headed predecessor, how anti-Jewish is Zionism.