My List: Top 10
1 - Hot kugel and herring in every shul every Monday, Thursday & Shabbos with Slivovitz added on Shabbos.
2 - Every Charedi must have their white shirts and suits taken to the dry cleaners every 30 days whether needed or not.
3 - Any family with less than 13 kids, loses their Charedi status and all welfare benefits.
4 - Any child with a secular education past first grade is banned from ever shaking hands with Minister Goldknopf and any member of his family.
5 - If you are wearing a kippa sruga, you must be converted to Orthodox Judaism by Aryeh Deri.
6 - Wearing a blue shirt in public is a sign of heresy, every Charedi rabbi must ban them from ever davening in their shuls.
7 - Internet use in every government facility must be banned.
8 - Pictures of Ben-Gurion taken off the walls in every government building.
10- The Supreme Court must be dismantled and replaced with one judge - Former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.
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| Yona Metzger taken in by police |
REPORT: UTJ and Likud Discuss Proposals to Dramatically Expand Religious Laws
JERUSALEM — A bombshell report in the Israeli media claims that as part of their coalition talks, Likud and the Charedi UTJ party are discussing a number of religious proposals.
The unsourced and unsubstantiated Channel 12 report claimed that Likud had already agreed to multiple proposals, including requiring power plants to shut down on Shabbos, the establishment of state-funded committees to answer questions on Halacha, the expansion of gender-segregated beaches, and an increase of religious studies in public schools.
However that report appears to have been debunked by both parties, who denied any final agreement had been reached. Likud described the proposals as “a list of demands from UTJ, not a deal that Likud has agreed to.”
Likud also denied that it would ban energy generation on Shabbos or expand gender-segregated beaches.
UTJ leader Yitzchak Goldknopf said late Monday that the two sides “are still currently sitting down for negotiations to formulate the coalition agreement.”
(It is a possibility that the non-religious media, or the leftist segment of the government, have exaggerated the report, in an effort to stir controversy and sabotage the religious parties.)
Channel 12 laid out a series of proposals, including:
- Passing a law to regulate the exemption of ultra-Orthodox youth from enlisting in the army
- Having a Chief Rabbinate representative on any panel weighing permits for work on Shabbos
- Barring electricity production on Shabbos
- Funding special archives known as a “genizah” — to preserve “shaimos” documents and papers containing Hashem’s name
- Forming and funding bodies to provide answers to the public on questions of halacha
- An agreement to increase the number of gender-segregated beaches
- Discounting public transportation in predominantly ultra-Orthodox cities
- Providing Charedim with affirmative action when applying for jobs in state-controlled bodies
- Allowing hospitals to ban chametz on Pesach
- Allowing any citizen to demand in-ground burial, instead of above-ground structures known as vertical cemeteries established to battle overcrowding
- Requiring more religious studies in the state’s secular school system
- Weighing the closure of the new Reform department in the Diaspora Affairs Ministry
- Mandating that all online government services also be provided via phone for those who shun internet use, as many ultra-Orthodox do
- Increasing government payouts to yeshiva students
The report also claimed that several Charedim would be appointed to Cabinet positions, including Goldknopf as Housing and Construction Minister, and Moshe Gafni as chairman of the Finance Committee. In addition, Meir Porush would be appointed Minister for Jerusalem Affairs and Tradition, and Uri Makalev as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Transportation and in the Prime Minister’s Office.
