The end to stuttering: High Court ruling on reform conversion will force Saar to take a stand | Israel Today

The prime minister may be pleased that the ultra-Orthodox factions will be able to sweep their electorate to the polls • But this is not how Netanyahu planned to go to the polls, with morbidity figures limited and victory over the epidemic impossible to declare.

• In his personal sentiment, Saar is connected to the Israeli tradition

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  Oren Ben Hakon

• This is not how Netanyahu planned to go to the polls

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  David Cohen / Flash 90

• An external event that changes the rules of the game.

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  Oren Ben Hakon

In an election campaign each party tries to take the agenda to the narrative that will serve it, however from time to time an external event arrives that draws all the players to it and changes the rules of the game.

This is the case in security events, as well as in legal events such as the High Court's decision regarding conversion.

The "Rak-La-Bibi" camp is made up of left and right parties, all of whose leaders have declared that they will not sit under Netanyahu as prime minister, but this is not the only thing they have in common.

As the ultra-Orthodox factions and Netanyahu, apparently out of letters of loyalty and mutual oaths of allegiance, became the same, all "only-not-Bibi" parties turned to the opposite side, to progressive anti-religious liberalism.

Those who are against Netanyahu are also against the ultra-Orthodox and vice versa.

Not only Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman and Nitzan Horowitz - but also Gideon Saar, who in his personal sentiment is connected to the Israeli tradition, but whose electorate is for the most part very far away.

He therefore issued a stuttering response yesterday on the issue of conversion, which apart from criticism of the government said nothing binding. 

Smutrich attacks the High Court ruling

However, the High Court ruling is an event that will require all party leaders to say clear things. It is already clear that in any government in which the ultra-Orthodox factions are partners, amending the law immediately will be a threshold condition. Anyone building on dismantling Netanyahu and the ultra-Orthodox will block For conservative legislation or liberal progress. Until yesterday, it was still possible to blur the messages. Once the High Court decision has been given, it is already much more difficult. 

Civil affairs, religion and state and an anti-Haredi agenda greatly serve Yesh Atid, Yisrael Beiteinu and Meretz, as well as Torah and Shas Judaism, but much less the Likud, new and right-wing hope. Netanyahu may be pleased that his Haredi faction members can now sweep Their electorate for the polls against the High Court and the intervention in the sensitive issue of conversion on the eve of the election, but in general would have preferred a completely different agenda.

Vaccines for example. 

Plan B'

In a long post on his Facebook page, Netanyahu explained why it is important for him to remain prime minister even after the election.

36 million vaccines must be brought to Israel so that the entire population can be vaccinated every six months, he wrote.

This post indicates that the Prime Minister is already preparing an escape plan, in case the vaccination project he led will not prove itself on the day of an order. 

This is not how Netanyahu planned to go to the polls.

The data are borderline.

The coefficient of infection rises again.

Instead of building the euphoria of a completely open state two weeks before the election, with the tremendous achievement of the first country in the world to do so, we continue to hear daily the concerns of senior election officials, their desire to postpone the opening, and even their threats that the "last closure" Indeed the latter.

It is impossible to declare victory in March, with a cloud of closure in April hovering overhead. 

Netanyahu's post on vaccines, then, is not a continuation of the vaccination campaign and the opening of the state, but a deviation from it.

Plan B'.

It is not clear how effective it will be like the original plan, which is still unclear if it will be able to continue to the end despite the bumps.