Yahadut HaTorah has offered a compromise on what is widely expected to be one of the most difficult issues facing the 35th Government of Israel – passage of a new draft law governing exemptions for yeshiva students.
As talks for the formation of a governing coalition continue, lawmakers from the UTJ have proposed a compromise plan aimed at passing a new draft law acceptable to both the charedi public and the Yisrael Beytenu party.
Under the arrangement put forward by the UTJ, according to a report by Yisrael Hayom on Wednesday, the charedi faction would accept the draft of a bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu in the previous government – provided it be modified to include a provision declaring that any individual yeshiva student who wishes to study Torah will be permitted to do so.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}
Okay. It sounds interesting. Let’s give it a try.
That’s a compromise? That’s all we need!