Against the background of the "conversion bomb" dropped by the High Court, Yaakov Bardugo in a stormy conversation with MKs Tamar Zandberg and Yaakov Margi on the meaning of the ruling • Listen to the podcast
Three weeks before the election - and the High Court strikes again with a controversial ruling and touches on the bleeding wound of Israeli society: religion and state.
The rule of the "lords" in Jerusalem could not wait after the election, and all to help the "not Netanyahu sect."
Against the background of the storm surrounding the High Court ruling that qualified the Reform and Conservative conversions in Israel, journalist Yaakov Bardugo today (Monday) hosted MKs Tamar Zandberg (Meretz) and Yaakov Margi (Shas) on the new podcast of "Israel Today".
The morning strip presented by Yaakov Bardugo, editor of the broadcast: Edith Druian // Photo: Yehoshua Yosef, Oren Ben Hakon
Zandberg:
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The court prepares the state for all its citizens"
Zandberg said there was a "state of marked inequality" in the country.
"The rabbinate's monopoly on the definition of 'who is a Jew' cracked yesterday," she said, "and it is doomed to crack and break even further.
"Most of the Jews of the world are not Orthodox, and the intolerable situation according to which only Orthodox law determines - this is something that should have ended."
Referring to the issue of illegal immigrants and infiltrators, she said: "There is no influx of every passerby who converts ... the statements that supposedly everything becomes the 'new demographic threat' - no, it actually presents a beautiful face of Judaism in Israel."
"My position is that the State of Israel is a home for all Jews and not the Chief Rabbinate determines who is a Jew. And Israel is also a home for its non-Jewish citizens, also Arabs. Meretz's platform is 'Meretz sees Israel as a democratic state, the Jewish people and all its citizens.' On the one hand, Zionism and, on the other, a democratic state with equal rights. "
Zandberg also referred to the plan to eradicate crime in Meretz's Arab society: "This is the number one problem that bothers the Arab citizens of the country. We see that organized crime has taken over the Arab sector everywhere."
Margie: "We made a mistake not promoting our own outline"
Veteran Shas MK Yaakov Margi also referred to the fiery potato he created yesterday in the Supreme Court, admitting that the ruling caught him and his faction members unprepared - and that they made a mistake in not promoting the "Moshe Nissim Outline" ahead of time, That it was possible and would have prevented this situation in the first place.
"The Supreme Court has not missed an opportunity to give us reasons to understand why a significant change is needed in everything related to it," MK Margie began with a scathing attack.
“The horror of the Supreme Court is still blowing.
The court had to withdraw from this issue, at least wait with the decision until after the election. I do not want to say that it is a knife stab in the back of all those who gave their lives for the Jewish religion. This is an issue charged throughout the history of the Jewish state. "Infiltrators can now arrive in the easiest way and obtain citizenship."
He added: "My personal perception was that we had to prepare and bring our initiative, that the High Court would get a stomach ache. In retrospect, yes, we made a mistake and we had to bring our outline, of Moshe Nissim.
We now have something worse. "