The responsibility for new laws on religion and state issues was shared between the ministers Israel today

The right-wing government divided the responsibilities regarding religion and state between its various components.

According to information obtained by Israel Hayom, the Minister of Finance and Chairman of Religious Zionism, Bezalel Smotrich, will be responsible for the Conscription Law and the Basic Torah Study Law, which are supposed to regulate the conscription of Yeshivots.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karai (Likud) will be responsible for the "Koma Hachshara" law designed to regulate the matter of kosher phones after the previous communications minister, Yoaz Handel, decided that the cellular companies would allow kosher subscribers to port numbers to non-kosher mobile phones as well.

Minister Smotrich.

The boycott, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The chairman of Torah Judaism, Moshe Gafni, will be responsible for the anti-discrimination law in regards to gender segregation at events and not providing service for religious reasons.

Minister Moshe Arbel of Shas will be responsible for the kosher law that will regulate the field after the application of the kosher reform by the previous government.

"Enforce the law in a balanced way"

In the meantime, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, referred to the evacuation of the outpost of Rabbi Chaim Druckman in Samaria at the cabinet meeting. It will be recalled that the ministers of Torah Judaism, led by Smotrich, did not come to the meeting in protest of the evacuation of the outpost and the failure to grant powers to the minister in the Ministry of Defense.

Netanyahu said that there is a balanced policy regarding the evacuation of illegal outposts, because illegal territories of Palestinians were also evacuated in the morning.

"We enforce the law in a balanced way," he explained, "today the manager destroyed three houses for Arabs."

He is referring to the houses destroyed by the security forces this morning in Wadi Rahal and Bartas in the Etzion sector in Judea and Samaria.

The Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, answered: "Really, really unbalanced. Here is a sample from the last month."

Minister Ben Gabir.

Confrontation, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Ben Gvir presented a document documenting a series of buildings built by Arabs in Judea and Samaria in the past month, and demanded that they be destroyed as well.

At the top of the list is the illegal outpost Khan al-Ahmar - which the High Court also demanded to be destroyed.

In addition, buildings that were built in the last month throughout Judea and Samaria were presented: in Sawiya (near Rahlim), in Mohamas (near Michmash), in El Muayir (between Shiloh and Kochav HaShahar), in Jit (near Kedumim) and illegal construction between the villages of El Arov and Beit Omer on the border of the Teva Nature Reserve Gavel El Kern.

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