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Hypocritical Attitude to Chareidi Community

By Eliezer Rauchberger

Speaking during the debate about three no-confidence measures, MK Rabbi Gafni spoke about what he called the ruling coalition's two- faced attitude towards the chareidi community and its representatives in the Knesset.

He noted that MK Rabbi Eichler had proposed that UTJ not support the government in the no-confidence votes because the minister's legislative committee had decided not to support a law that he had introduced to recognize a yeshiva education as the equivalent of a university-level degree with regard to determining salary and eligibility to fill certain positions which do not require a specific degree.

Rabbi Gafni said that Rabbi Eichler had accused the government of hypocrisy since they say that the chareidi community should go out to work to relieve their poverty, and now that they are proposing a law that would help chareidim who want to work, they do not support it. Someone who wants to be an engineer and has a degree in anthropology or ancient Chinese culture will be accepted for the job and get a salary that recognizes his degree even though it is not relevant to the job, but someone who studied in a yeshiva and afterwards took a professional course in engineering and has work experience will not get a higher salary since his yeshiva learning is not recognized as advanced study. Why this discrimination?

Rabbi Gafni also spoke about a law that he had proposed to require all schools to meet the strict safety conditions that are imposed on chareidi schools or else face the loss of their operating license. The government opposed his law saying that it would be very expensive among other arguments.

"I told Rabbi Eichler," summarized Rabbi Gafni, "that I have been in the Knesset longer than he. And I say that the Likud are hypocrites. There is no other word. Today we must vote with the government because we are obligated as members of the coalition. But we have to consider what will come of this eventually."

 

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