May 13, 2013

No money to draft the haredim

After all that, after the incendiary election campaign, after the invective thrown back and forth and the incessant fighting and bad blood generated in the process, the Finance Ministry is now saying they do not even have the money necessary to draft the haredim. Implementing such a process is very expensive, creating new units, incentivizing the target draftees, etc. With all the budget cuts, they just cannot come up with the money necessary for these programs.
(source: NRG)

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, applying his wit and cynicism to the situation, says that despite current statements, he expects the Finance Ministry will be able to find and come up with the money necessary, as they turned this into a big issue. he said that this is an attempt to force them to cut money from elsewhere so that they will be able to use available funds for the draft of haredim.

It turns out, if this is the way it is going to go down, that there was not even a need to ban the haredim from the coalition. The purpose of that was to be able to push forth the agenda of drafting the haredim, and of implementing a core curriculum in the haredi educational system, without having to deal with the opposition and haggling of haredi coalition partners. if that is not going to happen, there was no reason to ban the haredim from the coalition.




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4 comments:

  1. ChanaMay 13, 2013 5:06 PM

    They were not "banned". The Haredi political partners did not get into the coalition. Menachem Begin sat in the opposition for years, as did Netanyahu. No reason to expect that a minority sectoral party should be in every government.

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  2. jackMay 13, 2013 5:27 PM

    Of course they were banned. They were not given the choice to negotiate being in the government (of course the negotiations might have ended up with them sitting in the oposition). Bennett and his buddies Lapid and Lipman said "we won't even talk with them. They can't be in the coalition." That is a ban!

    And today the Date Leumi world is waking up to the fact that the Chareidim might have been an easy target but Bennett and Lapid's vision of destruction reaches far beyond the chareidim. They are after all of Torah Jewry.

    Here are links to two articles just from today where the Data Leumi rabbonim are finally (although they really must have seen this coming) waking up:

    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167975#.UZD37rWmjh4

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/167788/Rav-Medan-Shlita-Speaks-Out-on-Behalf-of-the-Chareidim.html


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  3. Rafi G.May 13, 2013 6:40 PM

    they were definitely banned

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  4. The WayMay 13, 2013 10:02 PM

    what about other parties that were banned, and have been for far longer, like meretz or tibi. I dont see anyone negotiating with them.

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