JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During a Yisrael Beitenu faction meeting, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman claimed that the real culprit for the wave of price hikes in Israel is the chareidi community. Liberman said that the fact that 50% of the chareidi men are not involved in the workforce is the main reason for the current rise in the cost of living.
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“Strangely, everyone is ignoring one factor,” Liberman said. “More than 50% of the chareidi community do not participate in the workforce. The level of employment among Jewish males aged 25-67 is 85% but among chareidi men it is less than 50%. If the level of employment among chareidim were the same as the rest of the population, it would create another 20 billion NIS and the money could be used for many purposes.”
UTJ leader Moshe Gafni responded to Liberman’s accusations, stating that “the outrageous words of Liberman at his faction meeting regarding the cost of living are not worthy of a response. His words should be sent to the garbage on a wheelbarrow [an allusion to Liberman’s boast that he would send chareidim away ‘on a wheelbarrow’]
MK Uri Maklev (UTJ) said that “in an attempt to save himself from the colossal failure to tackle the cost of living, Liberman is inciting and placing the blame on the chareidi public in a despicable, arrogant manner – ‘hit the chareidim and save Moscow’
“Liberman, who until a week ago claimed there was not increase in cost of living, suddenly discovered the real ‘culprits.'”
Maklev concluded that “a party which raided the public coffers and acted corruptly like a mafia for their own personal benefit has to raise taxes so that they can continue their theft.”
Keep sticking your heads in the ground. don’t work and live off others. Anyone that calls you out is an antiSemite
All these economic experts with zero knowledge!
It takes tax revenue to support all these non working people. That same money could better be directed in projects that make the economy work more efficiently.
Keep evading the truth because the truth is not pleasant.
This mans insane how he got elected and how people vote for him
Is the real question
I’m not an economist. still i don’t see the connection with having Charedim with low job participation and high prices.
To the contrary! cheredim being cash strapped are always looking for “deals” and “value” preferring low priced items instead of high priced items, that should put price pressure downwards not upwards
So in fact Charedim are probably having the opposite effect, lowering prices not increasing them
The problem is that we were flooded with Russian atheists who are only interested in being rich capitalists. America and Israel were suckers who fell for the lie that these Russians in the USSR wanted to be free to be Jewish.
“If the level of employment among chareidim were the same as the rest of the population, it would create another 20 billion NIS and the money could be used for many purposes” Liberman said.
Many purposes? Like giving it to the Arabs?
All the Zionists need to do is stop imposing their heretical Zionist faith on the Chareidim.
If these wicked people would simply allow the Chareidim to live as they do everywhere else in the world, meaning no shmad IDF requirement, then there would be far more Chareidim working.
Then there is the uncomfortable (for Zionists) fact that the Zionists never should have invaded the land to begin with a century ago. Then, the chareidim would not have been their responsibility. But the Zionists invaded anyways, against the wishes of all the inhabitants of the holy land, and then, in the Zionist State’s early years, made a status quo agreement with the native Chareidim. Now, the Zionists have been trying to renege on that as much as they can.
If more people had more money prices would rise, raising the cost of living even more.
The proof is in the numbers. Tel Aviv is the most expensive city to live in IN THE WORLD, largely for that exact reason, higher income = higher cost of living. Yerushalayim on the other hand has a lower income and lower cost of living.
If all those Charedim were working, the cost of living would be even higher.
Israel has always had a problem with inflation. I think we are all impressed the NIS has done as well as it has. I suppose the root of this problem would have to be something that Israel has also had since the beginning.
You may make your own guesses as to what that problem might be.
Is the issue due to a labor shortage? Then his argument makes sense. Otherwise I don’t know that people not working increase prices.
and yet the Young Israel shuls and YU still say a tefilla for these reshaim who control the heilega medina.