Agriculture Minister Oded Forer of Yisroel Beiteinu offered a bizarre solution to the shortage of milk that occurs every year after the yomim tovim due to the shuttering of milk production for several days.
MK Uri Maklev had asked him how he planned to solve the problem.
“We’ll need to see how to deal with this in the future,” Forer responded. “Perhaps the solution is to activate the production lines on Shabbos and yomim tovim for people who don’t consume kosher products.”
“These are the solutions of an atheist party which has removed from itself every sign of Jewishness,” Maklev attacked. “All you want is to bring in foreign culture — when there is a shortage of products due to Shabbos observance, you break and destroy Shabbos.”
{Matzav.com Israel}
I’m not sure what the author of the article is excited about. The Government of Israel is secular, and they offer secular solutions to problems. What would you expect? Of course, until now the frum element has been able somewhat to prevail upon the legislature to stay in line with frum concerns, but klal yisroel has fallen, and no longer merits this s’yata d’shmaya, so the secular government will do what secular governments do all over the world. There is no reason for the frum MK to be yelling because the secular officials in the government aren’t interested in frumme concerns.
Now, I am obviously not happy about the fact that we (the frum society) appear to have lost this special shmirah from Above regarding such issues, but I am commenting on the frum MK’s political posturing by “attacking” our opponents in the government. If it were more than political posturing, if it were truly a cry from the heart, I might have more respect for it.
Zionism at its best!
Cows must be milked on Shabbos, and on farms that produce the mehadrin milk, it is done with long established, halochically permitted mechanisms. That milk is used for mehadrin products, and the rest of the milk goes for non mehadrin products. The problem discussed above has nothing to do with how much milk gets milked on Shabbos and Yom Tov, in either manner, nor how that milk is processed. It has more to do with the culmination of summer’s heat lowering the total amount of milk the cows produce, and less with the actual processing, though it definitely is a contributing factor.