i24 News – Israeli Knesset member Idit Silman gave a televised interview, her first since resigning from the coalition. She said that the “gradual erosion” of Israel’s Jewish identity under the current government is what led her to quit.
“Nobody is prepared to stand up to the Yisrael Beytenu party… on kashrut, conversion, the Reform Western Wall, the Temple Mount, on Torah study,” Silman told Channel 12.
Despite reports that opposition head Bibi Netanyahu promised her the role of Health Minister under a new government, she claimed she was not promised anything in exchange for resigning. On the contrary, she suggested she was offered more to stay.
“I could have gotten anything I wanted here and now,” Silman said, adding that she “followed [her] heart” and gave up on “the job of my life” by resigning.
Justifying her decision to leave, she said voters of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party “got the opposite” of what they were promised.
“This government has lost its way.”
She spoke to “her friends” in the coalition’s right-wing Yamina and New Hope parties, saying to Channel 12: “The country is important, and its fate is in your hands.”
“The train has already left the station,” she added, urging them to follow in her steps and resign.
The Jewish identity of Medinat Yisrael will be preserved by following halachah. We just learned in daf yomi a week ago the requirements for conversion — there is no requirement for a centralized conversion authority. Converts need to bring witnesses to their conversion when they move to a new area. And it is a widely known halachah that any adult observant Jew is trusted as a witness for prohibitions, male or female, including kashrut. Again, no need for centralization. It is ironic that a nominally anti-religious group like Yisrael Beytenu is trying to get Medinat Yisrael to follow halachah.
“And it is a widely known halachah that any adult observant Jew is trusted as a witness for prohibitions, male or female”
Please define “observant Jew” for us. Since when have YOU become a posek?
Just keep learning Daf Yomi my friend. You have a long way to go.
the ONLY PROOF that jews have of ownership of Eretz Yisroel is because it was was promised to us in the Torah. no one can claim proof of ownership of anything if by citing as ‘proof’ is by picking and choosing only the aspects of such ‘proof’ that appeal to them. idit is correct when she says that the govrnment has lost its way
Why does always wear that same headband?
How right she is. Bennet would even allow public transport on schabbes for whole Israel only to keep his job as Prime minister.