'They will use you and throw you away': Netanyahu warns haredi parties away from Eisenkot-led bloc
Rabbis want lawmakers to back yeshiva student exemptions and an override clause, even as legal advisers say the plan may not survive court review.
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'They will use you and throw you away': Netanyahu warns haredi parties away from Eisenkot-led bloc
According to a source familiar with the negotiations, Netanyahu is personally speaking with rabbis, sending emissaries to the haredi leadership, and attempting to reach rabbis outside senior leaders.
DRAFT LAW DEMANDS: Chassidic Leaders Insist on Written Pledges From All 48 Opposition MKs and Override Clause
Israel’s chassidic leadership is reportedly preparing a series of far-reaching conditions for any agreement with the opposition’s so-called change bloc on legislation protecting yeshiva bochurim from military conscription. Among the demands are personal written commitments from all 48 members of the bloc to support a draft exemption law, along with a provision allowing the Knesset to override a Supreme Court ruling striking down the legislation.…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of nightly meetings with the leaders and members of Knesset of United Torah Judaism. Sources in the political system estimate that the talks with the Yashar! party led by Gadi Eisenkot were intended primarily for public needs. The post Coalition talks: Netanyahu increases pressure on the haredi parties first appeared on JDN.
News 12 commentator Amit Segal revealed a nighttime meeting that Netanyahu held with the former minister from United Torah Judaism, and the message that the Likud conveyed to the ultra-Orthodox in an attempt to prevent them from joining the Eisenkot government.
The Prime Minister is working behind the scenes to prevent Haredi MKs from joining the move to establish an alternative government. He met with Elyakim Stark, who was also with a close associate of Rabbi Lando - and Walla learned that this was not the only meeting that took place between the parties.
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