"When you want to hit us in day care centers and budgets you know who is Orthodox, just to protect us do not know who is Orthodox?",
So that the plaster today (Wednesday) Jacob whose meat Gideon Sa'ar Knesset, given the opposition of the latter Act racism ", designed by The proponents - Knesset members from Torah Judaism Yaakov Asher, Moshe Gafni and Yitzhak Pindros - to prevent incitement against the ultra-Orthodox.
The Ministerial Committee this week rejected a bill by the Ministry of Justice headed by Saar, according to which expressions of racism against the ultra-Orthodox will also be included in the law and will be defined as an accusation with criminal punishment.
The ultra-Orthodox claim that the move by the Ministry of Justice came even though Saar promised to support the promotion of the law, but Saar for his part claims that he promised to examine but not necessarily promote.
"When someone offers to 'supply gas to the Ponivez Yeshiva' and eliminate thousands of Torah students, 'and there is no compensation here and no punishment, is that not racism?'
"When senior politicians, including some of your coalition partners, incited against the ultra-Orthodox and offered to send them in wheelbarrows (the statement of Avigdor Lieberman; MI) - is this not racism ?!"
He addressed Saar directly: "I know you well from the past, Gideon Saar of a year ago would have signed this law with both hands. As someone who was close to the ultra-Orthodox public and its leaders you know what we are going through, you know it well and understand how serious it is, so I ask "You will reconsider your position and support the law. I will not insist on wording but we must find a way to protect a huge public that is being wildly incited against it without any punishment for it."
Under sharp attack.
Gideon Saar, Photo: Noam Moskowitz - Knesset Spokeswoman
MK Asher continued to attack Saar: "You claimed that the ultra-Orthodox could not be defined in law, that's what your legal advisers told you, but when you wanted to beat us in day care and education budgets, you found a way to define us.
Just protect us you do not know?
They allow the blood of a million ultra-Orthodox. "
He later teased Saar: "Even in the laws you submit to restrict a prime minister with an indictment you encounter opposition from legal advisers, but you find the way to overcome them, it's just a matter of will. I will not insist on any wording, the main thing is to resolve the issue. A huge public in the State of Israel only because it is ultra-Orthodox, will muster up courage and stop this ugly phenomenon. "
The Minister of Justice responded to the harsh words: "Yaakov who almost wet the lapel of my shirt with 'Where is Gideon of yesteryear' ... and I ask: Where was he and his friends all these years, when they sat in the coalition, if the law is so important, consumed and justified. A glorious Constitution Committee, and the previous Minister of Justice would have made a pilgrimage to you.
These are things that have no dawn.
I only promised to look into the matter, and I did.
I did not promise to support.
And to the substance of the matter: the definition of racism today touches on the background of color and ethnicity.
What you said, regarding incitement, exists in the law as 'publishing defamation on the public'.
"I am against collective attacks on the ultra-Orthodox, they are a good public, but they are not the only ones; tomorrow they will come and say to include the ... Conservatives and Reforms. There is a need for caution in expanding the definition of racism. "The world has raised the complexity. The people of Israel have testimonies and groups of all kinds, and when we expand the definition without a clear criterion, it will be an opening for further extensions. So now we oppose the bill, under certain conditions,
Asher responded to Saar: "I spoke to you two weeks ago, and you did not tell me to wait any longer because maybe conclusions will be drawn on the matter. If you told me, I would wait. And to your question why we did not deal with it last years, , But former Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn - who is not sure you would like to get into his shoes - objected at first, after negotiations we came in several directions, but you probably remember that because of the clashes in the previous government did not raise private bills.
"Regarding the past: in the last 12 years, the situation has not been as serious as it has been recently.
Asher added: "You brought me the Reformers here, to sting me. But when Gilad Karib walks down the street no one knows he is a Reformer. Neither he nor any other groups are diagnosed by their appearance. But we are. Because of the beard, the wigs and the suit. Tools to fight it, Bush and the Hall of Fame! "