The next storm in the coalition?
Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar said this evening (Wednesday) that the grandson clause will not be changed within 60 days.
This, contrary to the coalition agreements.
At a conference on the subject held by the Academic Center for Law and Business, the Million Lobby and the Israel Democracy Institute, Zohar said: "We will not comply with this 60-day clause, a coalition agreement is not something that is always easy to comply with. The issue requires a broad discussion and we do not do it in 60 days."
As a reminder, the ultra-orthodox parties and the religious Zionist party support the change of the section which should be done by a committee within 60 days of the establishment of the government.
MK Zohar is not the first MK from Likud to speak out against the change.
Knesset members Yuli Edelstein and Amichai Shikli also objected to the change in the Law of Return.
The Minister of Heritage Affairs, Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit), said at the conference: "The way to reform is a long journey. I think we must make a change in conversion - but the change should not be the flattening of conversion, shallowness, like a person who took a course on a motorcycle and now is part From the Jewish people, let's see that it is part of the enormous journey that the Jewish people went through. Not flattening it, only if we know how to look the complexity in the eyes and give it a real solution, we will know how to strengthen the State of Israel."
The grandson clause is a clause in the Law of Return by virtue of which family members of Jews have immigrated for many years.
As part of this section, even those whose one of their parents was Jewish or whose spouse is Jewish can immigrate to Israel.
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