The exposure of "Israel Today" continues to stir up the political system: After ultra-Orthodox Knesset members came out yesterday (Wednesday) in a froth against the conversion plan, Minister Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) now warns: "Promoting the conversion process is critical to the state's future. This coalition is ours. "
In an interview with Israel Today, Stern, as the initiator of the "Path" course for conversion and as involved in the current conversion outline, says that "every day that we do not solve or show improvement for this challenge - there will be more non-Jewish children. We owe it to them. They are our brothers. "Maybe only the father or grandfather is Jewish, but they are our friends from high-tech or the army, and we are losing them. I say this with pain - there are those we have lost, who will not come to convert."
He said, "For years we have entrusted the keys of the state to people some of whom oppose a Jewish and democratic state, and as long as we walk in their furrow we are harming ourselves. We are dissolving the importance of Jewish continuity, so "In the past. This is how I have been operating for years and we will bring this achievement."
Conflict within the coalition
Meanwhile, the struggle for the implementation of the outline also seeped into the coalition this morning, and led to a confrontation between the Yisrael Beiteinu party and the Labor Party when the "This Morning" program on Net B reported that there was someone who made it clear to Minister of Religions Matan Kahana that the outline he initiated was not acceptable to Yisrael Beiteinu. And there is a future.
In an interview with the program, MK Yulia Malinowski (Yisrael Beiteinu) addressed Minister Kahana and said that "it just will not happen, forget about it." "If no agreement is reached, we will not be able to move forward. If the chief rabbinate can prevent moderate rabbis from converting - then we have done nothing."
As we published yesterday, some of the ultra-Orthodox MKs also chose to attack the minister personally when MK Yoav Ben-Zur (Shas) called him "the minister for the destruction of religion," while MK Uri Maklev (Torah Judaism) added: "Minister Kahana Gives a gift to the Gentiles on Eidem Day, and turns the acceptance process into a rooted and historical chosen people for registration for a country club. "
Following these harsh remarks, MK Karib said on radio this morning that "Minister Kahana is under an ugly and disgusting attack."
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