Porush to Raam: Support for Draft Law is “a Knife in the Back of Chareidim”

Israel’s draft law was supposed to be put to a vote on Monday in the first reading in the Knesset plenum, but in the absence of a majority due to fears of opposition from the Raam faction, the law was removed from the agenda.

During a debate in the Knesset plenum, MK Meir Porush addressed the Speaker of the Knesset, MK Mansour Abbas, who chaired the meeting as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset.

“It is not true that you will pass the draft law,” he said. “To your people you say not to go to the army, not to serve. What is the logic of the members of Raam telling us to go to the army?”

He sharpened his message and said, “You have to think about whether you want to stab us in the back. We will not be able to live here if we are not allowed to study Torah. ”

Earlier, Porush said in his speech: “Torah Judaism opposed the law then in force, and this is its clear position. Even today we are against a law through which the Minister of Defense denies a postponement of service for anyone for whom Toraso is umnaso.”

Porsuh detailed various problems with the law, including the economic sanctions that will be imposed if certain goals are not met.

“For almost 75 years, since before the establishment of the state, the defense minister has had the authority to give a postponement to anyone who sits and learns Torah,” said Porush.

{Matzav.com Israel}