After the storm that took place this week and the attack by Shas MKs against the chairman of Torah Judaism, MK Moshe Gafni, claiming that he will enter the coalition:
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid wrote a post on his Facebook page this morning (Friday).
"I went to say congratulations to him. Quite a few interpretations have been written about it, but life is much simpler. Two people work in the same building, many quite a few, but remember that the personal exists in parallel with the political," wrote Minister Lapid on Facebook.
"I have many political debates with Gafni, but I appreciate the sharpness of his mind and his vast knowledge, and obviously I wish him many years of good health and peace from his children. There is something clean and innocent in his birthday. Eat a cake, light candles, you can stop fighting for a moment."
Lapid responded to criticism of Gafni from Shas MKs: "Immediately after I congratulated him, MK Uriel Bosso from Shas tweeted the following words: 'Dear Gafni, no anti-RPG weapons are fired.
We have no other camp than the right-wing camp, birthdays are celebrated with partners from the right only. '
Dear Gafni, do not shoot with a sniper!
We have no other camp from the right camp, birthdays are celebrated with partners from the right only!
- Uriel Busso- Uriel Busso (@BussoUriel) May 12, 2022
seriously?
Is that what we came to?
We no longer celebrate birthdays together?
Did we put the split and the rift there too?
Are we no longer ready to blow on the candles together and shout 'Congratulations'?
"You can not tell someone 'you will win next year', because if he is not from our camp we do not really want him to win?"
Minister Lapid congratulates MK Gafni of Torah Judaism on his birthday Photo: Yishai Cohen, Shabbat Square
Lapid continued: "And how does it work exactly? If I come with a gift for Uriel Bosso's 49th birthday, which falls this September, the security guard will not let me in because I am a center man? Not to mention the bigger things. Because if we can not even do together Birthdays, so obviously we can not marry those who are not 'partners from the right', and not do a bar mitzvah with them for the children, nor invite them to our house, God forbid. "You are so angry with MK Bosso," imagine what disasters might be caused by a whole Shabbat meal in which we would sit around a table with a white tablecloth and perform a kiddush together, "Lapid continued.
He added that "there is a lot of talk about the split and the rift in the people of Israel, but Bosso's tweet shocked me. Maybe because of the ease with which it was written. From the obvious. "Adults have childish songs like 'A nice celebration birthday.' Because that's where we are: haters, separated, on both sides of the fence, defined solely by politics in its worst and most divisive version."
Finally he concluded: "So no. I am not ready to accept it. It can still be stopped. It is still possible to bring this people back to the place where on Adam's birthday people from the right, left and center celebrate together. If there is one big task for Israeli politics today, it is "To make people remember that not everything is politics. We first and foremost live here together. For better or worse, in wars and disasters, on holidays and birthdays. Congratulations to Rabbi Gafni. Up to 120."
Last night, the chairman of Torah Judaism, Gafni, was interviewed at the high-tech conference of Kol Chai radio, where he said that he talked to Lapid about something that concerns the Foreign Ministry. He does not talk to Kahana, Handel, Lieberman and Bennett. The one that because they saw me with a torch, the joint list voted one way or another, is nonsense that is not even appropriate for kindergarten.
Tibi knows I'm talking to everyone and it doesn't matter.
"Minister Meir Cohen is really not suitable for this bad government," Gafni said in an interview.
He later attacked and said: "Why does anyone think that I will go with these fools and villains, whoever says all the time that I will go with the left went with them himself and brought Oslo (Shas was in the coalition at the signing of the agreements, HG).
We went to the polls four times, nothing changed.
We suffer the most because the ultra-Orthodox families, children and ultra-Orthodox localities suffer the most from this government.
Not the children of Likud voters. "
In response, MK Uriel Bosso said that "one birthday cake managed to bring Gafni back to the front of the left-wing platform. In the past, Gafni has spoken out several times against the right in various conferences and has not understood that we have no other camp."
MK Yossi Tayeb added: "Apparently the birthday participants influenced Gafni and confused him about who he loves and who he is an enemy."
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