who wants to give up their vacation?

Here is a reason to not vote "Bayit HaYehudi" in the upcoming elections, whenever they might actually take place.

Bayit Yehudi is submitting a bill to pass to cancel the national vacation day that we get on election day. Prof. Hershkowitz says that 1.5 billion shekels could be saved by canceling the vacation day, and that money can instead be used for reparations for the failing businesses in the south.

On the one hand, it is a nice suggestion.

On the other hand, that might be good for this year where the south is having a war on their backs. What about in the next elections? We won't have a vacation day then either, because the law already says no more national vacation day, and where will all that "saved money" go then?

Unless the law is very specific for this election only. And even then - once we start canceling the vacation day, it is highly likely they would cancel it completely as the next step. It is like the exchange rate. It swings one way, so rpices shoot up because imports cost more (though prices on israeli products always go up as well). the rate swings the other way and prices continue going up.

Once they take away the vacation day, they will not give it back so easily.

And I don't want to give up my vacation day! Heck, I wish we could have the government fall twice a year and have two vacation days extra every year!