Dormitory rule: waiting for the eighth passenger

One more member of the coalition can overturn the inclusive dormitories law, which will go up tomorrow (Wednesday) according to the plans for a preliminary vote in the Knesset in a swift legislative process.

The coalition has 68 Knesset members; Seven of them have already announced that they will vote against the law that encourages the escape of the ultra-Orthodox from military conscription. One more tzaddik – and the dormitory law collapses like a house of cards and may not come to a vote at all.

The seven who pledged to vote against are Minister Ofir Sofer (religious Zionism), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Yuli Edelstein, the four members of the State Right faction (Minister Gideon Sa’ar and three others) and MK Dani Iluz of the Likud. If there is a tie between the coalition and the opposition – the law will fall.

Last night news spread that MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionism) will also vote against the law, and perhaps he will be the eighth passenger who will block the whole move. At the moment it is not known how Yoav Galant will vote

Last night news spread that MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionism) will also vote against the law, and perhaps he will be the eighth passenger who will block the whole move. At the moment it is not known how Defense Minister Yoav Galant will vote.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu would have joined the aforementioned seven righteous people and voted against the law himself, had he not been so anxious about the fate of his coalition.

Netanyahu and his associates are the biggest opponents of the mass exodus of the ultra-Orthodox from military conscription and in the past the prime minister spoke out against them in a harsh manner. Today he is exerting atomic pressure on poor MK Iloz and others, so that they don’t overturn the law, which is actually meant to subsidize dormitories for ultra-Orthodox of draft age, even if they don’t enlist in the IDF.

Netanyahu and his associates are the biggest opponents of the mass exodus of the ultra-Orthodox from military conscription and in the past the prime minister spoke out against them in a harsh manner. Today he is exerting atomic pressure on MK Iloz and others, so that they do not overturn the law

The dormitory law would not have aroused such interest and public outrage on normal days, but in the circumstances of the war and the great losses on the battlefield – the law and the issue of equality in the burden became particularly emotional issues, and statements about discrimination between ultra-Orthodox blood and religious-Zionist and secular blood are becoming more and more intense.

The Knesset dealt intensively with the dormitories law yesterday, and the pursuit of supporters and opponents of the law will continue today as well. An ultra-orthodox attempt made yesterday to mobilize the Arab factions in the opposition in favor of the law failed. The Hadash-Ta’al faction made it clear that they would vote against any law if it undermined Netanyahu’s coalition.

Yesterday, Defense Minister Yoav Galant approved the issuing of conscription orders to 7,000 ultra-Orthodox militiamen, which adds to the enormous tension surrounding the issue of conscription and increases the ultra-Orthodox frustration with the government in which they are key partners.

Commentators from the ultra-Orthodox society came back yesterday and claimed that the ultra-Orthodox are unable to influence this government and that they should resign as one person in order to receive better offers from another coalition that will be formed after the elections.

“The current right-wing government is the worst for the ultra-Orthodox since the establishment of the state. It is an astronomical disaster for the ultra-Orthodox sector, no less.” Journalist Avi Moskov tweeted. “The ultra-orthodox parties must seriously consider the possibility of retirement. In such a government, they legitimize the recruitment and mass orders to choose yeshiva and cutting the bread and milk of the abrachs.”

“The ultra-orthodox parties must seriously consider the possibility of retirement. In such a government, they legitimize the recruitment and mass orders to choose yeshivas and cutting the bread and milk of the abrakhs”

The ultra-Orthodox will of course not withdraw from the right-wing coalition; They are connected to her mentally and ideologically. At the same time, harsh criticism of the dormitories law initiative is also heard in the ultra-Orthodox elite.

One of the opponents of the move is Shas chairman Aryeh Deri. In internal conversations, Deri claims that the dormitories law should not have been combined with the non-conscription law, which provokes double and redoubled public outrage.

Deri and senior members of the Shas are convinced that this law, which comes to poke a finger in the eye of the High Court’s decisions, will be invalidated by the High Court if it passes the Knesset, and therefore has no future. Deri believes that the matter of the dormitories could have been settled quietly, without the need for a law initiated by “As Israel Eichler from Torah Judaism.

Deri and Shas officials are convinced that this law, which comes to poke a finger in the eye of the High Court’s decisions, will be invalidated by the High Court if it passes the Knesset, and therefore has no future. Deri believes that the matter of the dormitories could have been settled quietly, without the need for a law

Either way, if the dormitory law comes to a vote tomorrow, the debate in the Knesset is expected to be one of the stormiest we’ve ever known. A social law that could on normal days be covered under the title of encouraging women’s employment, became one of the most explosive in the already stormy and militant term.