Lapid: "three years from now 70% of haredim enlist"

"70 percent of haredim will be drafted," finance minister Yair Lapid insists in a post published on Shabbos morning.

"All our sessions together, you can put into a quarter of the Belzer Rebbe's wedding," Lapid mentions at the start of his words and returns to the days of the foundation of the party and victory: "This week we started winning again."

"The Burden of Equality commission's conclusions, on which a primary vote will be held on Sunday, are a huge political victory of Yesh Atid, but much more than that, of Israel.

"It is no coincidence that headings morning in Yedioth Ahronoth and Israel Hayom - two newspapers that rarely agree on anything - used the word 'historical'. Governments have already fallen on it, careers crushed, committees dismantled, coalitions dissolved, the State and Supreme Court went into direct confrontation, they were all convinced that there is no solution.

"But there was a solution all the time, all you need is determination and adherence to principles. Merely two months after the establishment of the government and Peri Committee brings an agreement that would prompt that 3 years from now 70% of haredim will be drafted, 28,000 other haredim will enter the labor market, and the service could be postponed maximum until the age of 21 (and this delay will be only if the IDF will agree to it).

"We ran the elections under the banner 'We came to change!' Now we are changing. Recruiting Haredim, a problem which was a bleeding wound in the heart of Israeli society, comes to a negotiated, sane, sensible, but also decisive and conclusive solution. Instead of succumbing to the various sectors, the state returns to act as a lord standing for its own. "

MK Yariv Levin: Deluding, anti-haredi campaign


Meanwhile, coalition chairman MK Yariv Levin, also joins the attack against the planned law of Peri Committee, and says: "It's not equal burden, it's a bluff, it's a rip-off, it's an anti-haredi campaign and not a campaign for equal burden".

These words join the words of Housing Minister Uri Ariel who wrote on Friday: "During the discussions on Sunday we will insist that the recruitment of minorities will be no less than the haredi community. The reality in which burden-sharing is required only from one public and not another public is inappropriate and unjust and we demand equality towards everyone. "

Israel Beiteinu exaggerates and clarifies that this is the conditional support of party members in the law. The faction demands that the burden equality bill will be introduced with substantial changes so that recruitment targets will already be determined also for minorities, as well as a budget item that shall regulate and enable the operation of the law.

At the same time, Shabbos newspapers, haredi spokesmen continue to strongly criticize the proposed recruitment and Haredi MKs assure a determined struggle against the draft proposal. 'Tov' movement incorporating working haredim - some of whom served in the IDF, also strongly rejects the offer and argues that any agreement should come about through dialogue.

"The attempt to impose recruitment of haredim will not succeed, will bring to a cultural war and disintegration of the fabric of relations between different populations in Israel," Tov says. "An attempt to resolve the issue through a "flash decision" shows the intention to lead the process in a collision and not to give any answer."

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