Smotrich promises: "A good government will be established in the coming days" (Knesset Channel)
Much opposition was heard this evening (Sunday) following the publication in Vala, of the decision to include the clause against Israel's accession to the Istanbul Treaty in the coalition agreement between Religious Zionism and Likud.
Among the opponents of this decision, which concerns the international convention to combat violence against women, were politicians from the opposition, women's organizations and refugees.
More than 40 countries in Europe joined the Istanbul Convention, and apparently religious Zionism opposes it due to the possibility that it would oblige Israel to give status to persecuted refugees.
Social Equality Minister Merav Cohen accused Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu of neglecting women.
"In Netanyahu's liquidation sale, the women also pay the price," she tweeted.
"Israel will not join the international convention that aims to provide a holistic and comprehensive response to the difficult phenomenon of violence against women, which there is a professional consensus on its importance. Where shall we direct the shame...".
Energy Minister Karin Elharer also protested the move: "Violence against women is a phenomenon that must be eradicated and it cuts across camps, but Netanyahu is so weak and blackmailed that he agreed in a coalition agreement not to join the struggle. He probably had nothing to sell anymore. Shame."
"They take us back years."
Netanyahu and Smotrich (photo: official website, no)
Minister of Welfare Meir Cohen said: "The phenomenon of violence against women is an evil that must be acted upon in every way to eradicate it. In the previous government I supported the Istanbul Convention and we worked in the government to promote it, in addition to that in the Ministry of Welfare we began steps to implement the Convention, we significantly increased the budget for preventing domestic violence, We promoted and developed new torturers and increased the budget from NIS 55 million to about NIS 290 million. I regret the agreement between Likud and religious Zionism that Israel will not join the international convention, this could harm our fight against the phenomenon of violence against women."
"There is no limit to cynicism - there are also those who turn this humanitarian issue into a political issue," said the chairman of the Naamat organization, Hagit Par. "Joining the Istanbul Convention will not only not threaten Israel's Jewishness, but will add additional content to its Jewish values."
"The fact that the prime minister-designate is willing to abandon women to suffering, mental torture and continuous violence is unacceptable," the Association of Aid Centers said.
"The price for this decision will continue to be paid by women and children, who suffer every day from terrorism inside and outside the home, but their mental and physical torture, Bibi and Smotrich do not count. This is a wrong, infuriating decision that sets us back years in the fight against violence."
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A rally to mark the day of the fight against violence against women, last year (photo: surfers' photos, Lehman Foundation)
Rivka Neuman, director of the division for the promotion of the status of women at the Witzo organization, said: "Since 2011, Israel has refrained from joining the international treaty whose essence is a commitment by the state to act to eradicate violence. Israel as a state of law, a state committed to the safety of its citizens and the children exposed to violence in their homes. My heart breaks at the thought of twenty families whose children will give up Orphans in 2023 - as a predetermined fate. My heart aches at the thought of a million men, women and children trapped in the cycle of violence. This is not a partisan issue of right or left, secular or religious, sexual orientation or civil status. I call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove the issue Eradicate violence from any negotiation and protect us all."
The CEO of the Women's Lobby, Hadas Danieli-Yilin said: "At first they wanted to exclude us from the public sphere, then they asked us not to enlist in combat positions in the army and now they are telling women in danger of their lives - get along.
There is no limit to attempts to harm women." According to her, there is no danger in the convention of thousands of refugees entering Israel: "Well, Smotrich Ben Gabir and his friends know that this is already regulated in Israeli law."
She added, "Violence against women is a cross-sector phenomenon.
To prevent the State of Israel from signing the Istanbul Convention, is to come and tell the hundreds of thousands of women who are now afraid to be in their homes that there is no one to help them.
Especially since there is no danger in the treaty of thousands of refugees entering Israel.
After all, Smotritz Ben Gabir and his friends know that this is already regulated by Israeli law."
Demonstration against violence against women, September 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
In response to the protest against the decision, the Center for Israeli Immigration Policy, which led the fight to join the convention, responded: "Unfortunately, the Istanbul Convention would not have solved the problem of violence against women, but would have created a host of new problems for the State of Israel, in a way that would have seriously harmed its ability to protect its borders, its sovereignty and its identity. As Judge Asher Grunis wrote, human rights are not a prescription for national suicide. Well done Likud and religious Zionism for agreeing that Israel will avoid entering this pit. We will continue to monitor and make sure that Israeli governments will avoid entering more pits."
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