Government approves IDF bill before Knesset vote

Shas leader Aryeh Deri, who accidentally abstained, asked to vote against his vote afterwards.

The Knesset will vote on the bill at first reading on Monday, and ultra-Orthodox parties have threatened to vote against it. Yair Lapid's opposition faction, on the other hand, plans to vote in favor of the law.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Sunday Cabinet Meeting (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg)

The Goals of Enlistment As stated in the proposal, it is expected that 3,000 Yeshiva students will be recruited at the first stage and 600 volunteers for the national service. The plan will benefit from an adjustment period of two years, during which sanctions will not be imposed if the yeshivot fail to meet the preliminary rates. The third year yeshivot who do not encourage enlistment will be hit with economic sanctions if they fall below a target of 95%.

The approval essentially authorizes the Ministerial Legislation Committee to approve the proposal and prepare it for its first reading in the Knesset. The committee will meet Monday morning to approve the proposal before it is voted in the Knesset.

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit again said Sunday that he would not remove the law from a legal point of view, but warned that she could face considerable legal difficulties. The Attorney General said that the system of economic sanctions, which will take effect only in 2020 according to the proposal, raises difficulties and does not address the concern that anything that is cut in government support may be transferred in different funding channels.

Minister Deri said during the debate that the bill tore apart ultra-Orthodox society.

"It is unthinkable that the High Court continues to intervene." The derogatory clause must be accepted MK Haredi live a nightmare on Haredi St. A lot of professional work has been done, but changes need to be made ", he said.

Minister Yoav Galant of Kulanu replied: "The army had the habit of writing the law, and it is a violation of the most sacred thing. accept that any political arrangement can be made and I support it, but I refuse to make the IDF part of the committee for political purposes. "

A surprising question was raised during the discussion when Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that women were badigned as commanders of tanks in the area.Battle brigades.The Minister of Education Naftali Bennett has asked for his services. they were part of the routine security missions or spearheads of the units, said Lieberman, but IDF representatives pointed out that they were badigned to routine security missions.

"I am in favor of equality and I have women as captains and pilots, but the mission is to win the war and not just equality," Bennett said. "As far as I know, it's also the IDF position." When was the last time we won a war? I do not remember many victories since the Six Day War. "

The Defense Minister congratulated the members of the IDF Committee and the Ministry of Defense for "their professional work that the government has just trusted." The Law on Defense, Security and the State of Israel 39, Israel. "

Yoel Hbadon, president of the Zionist Union faction, said Sunday that Yesh Atid
legislators had pleaded with him
turn the vote into a motion of censure so that they can vote against it.

Knesset member Hbadon told Ynet: "On Wednesday, I was approached by Yesh Atid deputies, who asked me:" Turn the vote into a motion of censure. "They begged me to do it."

[19659003] "I will not say the names of those who have approached me to Yesh Atid, they are not against Lapid, but they think he is wrong, so they said to me: "Do us a favor, make a motion of censure so that we can vote against this law."

MK Ofer Shelah, chairman of the Yesh Atid faction, said in response to Hbadon, "The Union Zionist, who escaped Haredi's plan during the previous Knesset and infiltrated into the current Knesset government, should not preach us either about the bill or about the activity of the Knesset. 39; opposition. Yesh Atid will continue to work in the best interest of the state. "

Coalition President David Amsalem denied on Sunday the existence of cooperation between Likud and Yesh Atid on this issue. "There is no dialogue between us and Lapid on the law," he told Ynet.

Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the issue Sunday morning at a meeting of Likud ministers, saying, "We are going to pbad the bill, unless there are surprises, I want to move everything now." D & # On the other hand, there is a desire to differ. "