Shas MK Yinon Azoulay slammed Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon, saying that he is the main culprit behind the sanctions against the Chareidi sector.

Speaking to Kol Chai on Tuesday evening, Azoulay said that Limon tells Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara what to do.

“Baharav-Miara does what he says,” he said. “He’s behind it. He’s full of hatred—toward Chareidim, the right, and Netanyahu.”

Limon doesn’t just use his position to contrive sanctions against Chareidim but personally accompanies the process to ensure his decrees are enacted in law. He attended a Knesset discussion on Tuesday regarding the Daycare Law to urge lawmakers to ensure that the families of avreichim are denied daycare subsidies, prompting UTJ chairman Moshe Gafni to call him an antisemite.

Last month, senior real estate and economic adviser Yaakov Reinitz slammed Limon in a column in the Hebrew-language Hamodia newspaper. Referring to the Attorney General’s office’s move to revoke eligibility for discounted housing lotteries to the families of avreichim, Reinitz said that the move reflects an attempt by the legal establishment to use economic pressure in order to reshape Chareidi society.

Quoting political commentator Amit Segal’s recent criticism of Limon, who dubbed him “the most dangerous man to Israeli democracy,” Reinitz wrote that unelected legal officials have increasingly overridden elected government officials by delaying decisions, changing rules “mid-game,” and steering government policy toward repeated High Court intervention.

Reinitz wrote that the most recent example is last month’s Israel Land Council’s deliberations over the future of the “Dira B’Hanacha,” housing lottery, saying that before the discussion even began, Limon sent what he described as an “extraordinary letter” to the legal adviser of the Israel Land Authority instructing officials what the focus of the discussion should be and warning that failure to adopt the desired decision could constitute “deviation from court orders.”

“In other words,” Reinitz wrote, “decide whatever you want — as long as it’s the decision we want.”

Reinitz slammed Limon for personally attending the meeting, describing him as “an unelected legal bureaucrat” ensuring the system aligned with the legal establishment’s position.

Limon’s message to the Chareidi public is clear, he said. ‘If you don’t align with the worldview of the legal system, I’ll manipulate the law to ensure you’ll pay a heavy economic price.'”

Reinitz asserted that the underlying goal is to apply financial pressure on Chareidi families in hopes of changing their lifestyle and values.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)