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Members of Knesset in Likud came out today (Monday) against the coalition's intention to promote the Jewish religious services bill, such as the elections of city rabbis, regional rabbis, settlement rabbis and neighborhood rabbis, known as the "Rabbi Law".
MK Eli Dellal said: "Perhaps there are those who have forgotten, but in a tank in Gaza or on the northern border there are currently soldiers who think differently and mobilized to fight together and left everything aside.
Like them, we, the elected officials, should not be involved in what may create division, debate and division.
No law is worth it at this time - yes, not even the law of the rabbis."
MK Tali Gottlieb also announced that she would not support the law of city rabbis: "This time I will not let them use me to promote a law that will do nothing except for discrimination and division during wartime. I appeal to all Likud members to oppose the introduction of the new rabbinical law. This is not the time. There is a place to discuss this law seriously and to avoid unnecessary fuss at this difficult time. Enough is enough."
"I appeal to all Likud members to oppose the raising of the new rabbinical law."
MK Tali Gottlieb/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
"No law is worth division at this time."
MK Eli Dellal/Reuven Castro
Earlier today it was announced that the state right-wing faction, together with the state camp faction, decided to veto the further advancement of the bill.
MK Ze'ev Elkin (State Right) informed the chairman of the coalition, MK Ofir Katz (Likud), about this. However, despite the veto, the coalition decided to advance the bill as planned. Tomorrow, the Constitution Committee chaired by MK Simcha Rothman will convene for a discussion. In preparing it for the first reading.
The bill promoted by Shas and also supported by the other factions of the original coalition was supposed to be debated in preparation for its approval by the Constitutional Committee for the first reading. Among other things, the proposal would make it possible to appoint more than a thousand rabbis of new cities, settlements and neighborhoods and to increase the number of rabbis who receive a salary by more than three times The proposal will make it possible to appoint 768 additional settlement rabbis and 278 new neighborhood rabbis, in a way that will give Minister of Religion Michael Malchiali of Shas control over these appointments.
"The return of the rabbinic law to the Constitutional Committee's table shows that the government and the coalition have gone back to October 6," said MK Gilad Karib (Labor). The secular and traditional public hundreds of ultra-Orthodox rabbis and ultra-Orthodox rabbis for decades to come."
The Constitution Committee will convene tomorrow to discuss the preparation of the law for first reading.
MK Simcha Rothman/Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel
Israel Beitenu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman called on Gantz and Eisenkot to resign from the government following the move: "The Job Law promoted by the government drastically increases the number of rabbis in the authorities and essentially takes power from the hands of the local authorities and transfers it to the Chief Rabbinate and the Minister of Religious Affairs.
This law will cost the public dearly, it is intended solely to preserve the coalition and not to serve the public.
I call on Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot to take action and resign.
The very fact that the government promotes such controversial laws at this time proves one thing - they are busy with their political survival and nothing else."
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