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A halachic state is on its way.
Over the past few months we have warned that if Netanyahu reaches 61 mandates he will be ready to sell everything for his partners in order to get out of his legal entanglements, and the result is that the State of Israel will become a Halacha state.
This can be seen in the simplest way in the statement of intentions that we hear from the designated Minister of Housing, Yitzhak Goldknopf, who does not hide that for him "it is more difficult to study Torah than to be a fighter on the front", and claims that he did not see "that mathematics advanced the state economically".
And also the Chairman of the Finance Committee, Moshe Gafni, for whom there is a clear division in the people - "Half of the people will study Torah and half will go to the army."
Even in the legislation that Netanyahu's partners demand and receive, there are clear references to the fact that we are on the way to a halachic state - a basic Torah study law will be enacted that allows the evasion of an entire population from military or civilian service, gender segregation will be enshrined in law, the rabbinic courts will be given judicial powers in economic and civil disputes, the kosher reform will be canceled, The roaming reform in the kosher cell phone will be canceled, the conversion outline will be buried and a committee will be established to examine the grandson section of the Law of Return.
Netanyahu with his partners Gafni, Deri and Smotrich (photo: official website, no)
A large majority of the people want to keep Israel liberal.
Lieberman (Photo: Reuven Castro)
And if dark legislation is not enough, the government ministries are also dismantled through "structural changes" - two units will be established that will compete with each other and be entrusted with Jewish identity - the Jewish National Identity Authority headed by Avi Maoz and the Jewish Identity Directorate under the responsibility of Bezalel Smotrich.
The Ministry of Education will be torn apart, the Ministry of Defense will be split and almost every ministry will have a minister from Shas or Torah Judaism who will be solely responsible for benefits to the ultra-orthodox sector.
And of course the change in the order of priorities in the state budget - about 6 billion shekels will be transferred to institutions that do not teach core studies, electricity will not be generated on Shabbat at a cost of tens of billions, ultra-Orthodox cities will benefit from additional and unique discounts in public transportation, and in housing - for example, a huge project with about 45 thousand housing units which was planned to be built for young couples in Kiryat Gat will be converted into housing for the ultra-Orthodox population only, and a target of at least 15% of each large project to be adapted to the ultra-Orthodox sector has been decided.
If they do not meet this goal, the government will be fined 100,000 shekels in favor of a fund under the sole control of the Minister of Construction and Housing, Yitzhak Goldknopf.
In order to keep Israel Zionist and liberal, we will have to fight every day, hour by hour, with all the citizens of Israel who want it, and we are talking about the great majority of the people.
This is our mission, this is the commitment of all of us.
The writer is the Minister of Finance and the chairman of the Israel Beitenu party
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