The Ultraortodox Jewish party Shass, an ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened on Monday, June 9 to tear down the Israeli government voting this week for the first elections in Parliament, giving two days to the Head of Government to “find a solution” to his statements.
The Benjamin Netanyahu government, one of the most of the right in the history of Israel, is threatened to fall on the issue of the military service of ultra -orthodox Jews. They have benefited for decades of an exemption increasingly accepted by Israeli society, while the country has been at war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
Benjamin Netanyahu must deal with a strip of his party, Likoud (right), which promotes a law destined to enlist more ultra -orthodox and harden the sanctions against the rebellious and true Casus Belli For parties such as Shass, which represent the “Hardim” (“those who feared God” in Hebrew) and require a law for a long time guaranteeing their emancipation of military obligations.
“We are not happy to knock down a right -wing government, but we have reached our limits,” the Shass spokesman, Shass spokesman, the Jewish party Sepharade Ultra Oortodox: “If there is no last minute solution (in recruitment, editor’s note), we will vote the dissolution of the Knefiset” (Parliament).
Weakened Alliance
On Thursday, a source in Shass told AFP that the party threatened to leave the ruling coalition and demanded “a solution before Monday.” The opposition, which seeks to capitalize on the Honda of the Ultra -Orthodox to demolish the Executive, tries to have the day of the plenary assembly on Wednesday a bill to dissolve the Parliament.
Trained in December 2022, the Benjamin Netanyahu government is due to an alliance between its party, Likoud formations, far and the ultra -orthodox Jewish parties, whose beginning would mean the end of the government.
According to a survey published in the right -wing diary, Israel Hayom, in March, 85% of Israeli Jews support a change in the law in the recruitment of Heredim, including 41% in favor of a law that really makes military service mandatory (32 months for men) for all of them in age to do so.
At the same time, the leader of the leftist Israeli opposition, Yaïr Golan, called at the immediate end of the war in the Gaza Strip, and estimated that the Benjamin Netanyahu government no longer represented “the vast majority” of the Israeli.
“Today, the Israel government does not represent the vast majority of Israelis,” said Yaïr Golan, president of the Democratic Party and former Deputy Director of the Army.
“Save democracy”
After more than 20 months of war launched by the attack against the movement of Hamas Islamist Palestinian in the Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, Israel “should end the war as soon as possible,” Yaïr Golan told journalists.
His party, a left alliance, only has four seats in the Knéset (Israeli Parliament) that has 120, which makes it one of the smallest political groups. But in a country where coalition training is essential to obtain a majority in Parliament, even relatively small parties can exercise considerable power.
Yaïr Golan posed representing “those who want to save Israeli democracy (…) from a corrupt future” and “messianic, nationalist and extremist vision of a very small faction of Israeli society.” A reference to the current government, one of the most of the right in the history of Israel.
“The great desire for Israel to remain the homeland of the Jewish people and at the same time a free, equal and democratic state,” he added.
According to him, the Israelis also want mainly the immediate end of the war in Gaza, the return of all the hostages that are still preserved there, and the creation of an investigation commission on October 7.
Source: BFM TV
