JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The full coalition agreements for the new Bennett-Lapid government have been revealed in the past few hours and include a number of proposals which the parties involved in the government wish to promote and which could cause irrevocable harm to chareidi interests. Most of these proposals appear in the agreement between Lapid’s Yesh Atid party and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party, but it should be noted that Bennett and Saar could still prevent many of them from being implemented since the Knesset still has a majority of right-wing, pro-tradition MKs.
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The proposals include:
- the cancellation of the Western Wall framework, which would allow the Reform movevent to conduct prayers in an area adjacent to the Western Wall compound.
- The cancellation of the Supermarket Law, which would allow each individual municipality to legislate by-laws allowing supermarkets to open on Shabbos without requiring the authorization of the Minister of Interior, effectively opening the way to mass Shabbos desecration in municipalities with a secular majority.
- Core studies law which would require every educational institution to integrate the core studies, with possible cancellation of all budgetary allocations to institutions which refuse to integrate the core studies.
- Civil Union law would allow marriage to be conducted not in accordance with halacha and would allow same-sex marriages in contravention of halacha
- Public transport on Shabbat is being promoted by incoming Transport Minister Merav Michaeli (Labor) and chareidi parties feel that a law permitting such transport would be irrevocable as the Supreme Court would deem it a basic right.
- Kashrus reforms- Yisrael Beitenu propose allowing local rabbis to provide Kashrus not just in their own city but in all cities in the country and this would lead to competition in the Kashrus market which could weaken the quality of Kashrus provided.
- Reform conversion: In accordance with a recent decision by the Supreme Court, the coalition would allow every city rabbi to perform conversions and this could lead to reform rabbis converting gentiles in contravention of halacha but they would be recognized as Jews by the Interior Ministry leading to problems with Jewish lineage.
- Transfer of Chief Rabbinate to Zionist rabbis: In another two years the Chief Rabbis will be elected and if a religious Zionist party is in control they will be try to promote religious Zionist rabbis and rabbinical judges, since there will be no chareidi representatives in the committee for appointing rabbinical judges.
we all must pray that this govt fails bkrov
The sooner that the State of Israel becomes universally known as the Zionist State that it is, without any false pretense of that State being Jewish (because it never was and never will be), the better that will be for Jews both under the Zionists and worldwide and, to a lesser extent, also better for the whole world.
Given this, if one compares most of the above items to the way Jews live around the world, the only one that seems concerning is the education one, which is an issue world-wide, and which, presumably, askanim will address there as they do world-wide, if need be.
B”H, as the idolatry and heresy of Zionism becomes increasingly more obvious, the arrival of Moshiach seems that much more imminent; may it be BB”A.
I love #8 :
The next Chief Rabbi may actually be a Zionist! Oy vey!
Merav Michaeli’s grandfather is the infamous Rudolph Kastner (see Ben Hecht’s book Perfidy), that should be all your need to know about this government.
Everything comes from Hashem. Hashem either wants this government or thinks it will be good for the Yidden. Who are we to argue either way?
Amazing how a little power will. let you sell out your supporters and nation
so a Guy in yamaka is pushing for gay marriage the most gravest sin of all! may he have the dame downfall as another “frum” guy (though Aguda loved) named Shelly Silver who I hear has months left till he has to really account for his grave sin.
I really don’t see the issue with some of these.
What is the tragedy if there are independent hashgochos? That is the system in the USA. Is competition bad?
Is there really something wrong with a frum religious Zionist who has smicha to be a Rabbi?
I am frum, the child of Holocaust survivors. I was married in EY and it was very hard to satisfy the Rabanut that I was a Jew. It was harder because much discussions went through a Rabbi that, I believe, did not speak hebrew or spoke with an extreme accent of origin. Obviously, letters from Shul or Rosh Yeshivah make no sense for this and much documentation was lost in Europe. A civil marriage and a Chuppah privately would have been great. PS, decades later we found very legit documentation.
4 This would lead to the utter destruction of EY and cause the end of the Zionist dream/nightmare. same sex “marriage” in EY with a yamulka wearing politician might be the biggest Chillul Hashem since briyas haolam.
8 let’s nominate rabbi Zvi Thau and put a tzadik in.
I’m so happy with these new laws.
There is a way to turn this around. If Thursday thousands of right wingers and chareidim March around old city and provoke the Arabs to riot again then the government will fall apart and new elections will take place putting Bibi and the chareidi parties back in power.