Secularists against Lapid's attack: "How low can he stoop"

Seculars against Lapid : The morning after the verbal battles between the Minister of Finance and haredi MKs in the Knesset, secular personalities attack him.

Labor leader MK Shelly Yachimovitch, said in an interview with Army Radio: "There comes a finance minister with budget cuts which are unbearable, with a smile and olive oil, and instead of making difficult decisions, he lashed out a bad and outdated lashing at the haredim." She added that, "the Haredim do not want to be poor. Haredi employment programs are snatched by them as rolls. One should integrate the haredim in the world of work, and not stand on a stage and insult. It has no use or purpose."

Journalist Amnon Levy, who covers over the years the Haredi society and knows it closely, wrote on his Facebook sharp words: "How low can Yair Lapid stoop, he sits in the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, and accuses the haredim of the budget deficit, as if Bibi was only an accidental tourist, a partner of Bennett and his settlers' party, but rolls the state debts on the haredim, although their expense is small change compared to the settlements.

Levy further wrote: "Lapid was and remains a spoiled rich boy, from the rich and privileged elite of the country, a man who never knew a lack even a single day in his life, but the stipends of poor children in Israel he wants to cut and trim. This populism revolts me, how sad to see good people that out of hatred for Haredi or Arab or oriental, are going after this demagoguery." Amnon Levy published a book about haredi society and created a television series dealing with various trends within it.

For writer Yael Mishali, Lapid's remarks reminded of the style of his father, MK Tommy Lapid. On her Facebook she criticized the form of speech, though not necessarily the contents: "I tried to listen (again) with the morning coffee. Words and music from father's home. That Tommy escapes from him so much (at the edges, at the end of sentences, in a choked voice. The Hungarian tune, the rolling "R", the enthusiasm ...). One has to submit such contents completely differently. Ugh."

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