Trick or Treat - The Haredi Halloween Version
United Torah Judaism refrained from recommending Benjamin Netanyahu to the president for forming the government, sparking two interpretations in the political system: a Haredi ploy to secure a conscription law, or a genuine crisis that could lead to an alliance with Gadi Eisenkot. Likud fears the implications of this move on the historic alliance.
United Torah Judaism refrained from recommending Benjamin Netanyahu to the president for forming the government, and its move has sparked two main interpretations in the political system. One holds that this is a classic Haredi ploy: the Haredim will negotiate with Gadi Eisenkot, secure his signature on a blank page that includes demands such as a conscription law and budgets, and then present it to Netanyahu as a threat. The other believes that this time it is a genuine crisis, stemming from a sense of Haredi distress over the bureaucracy of conscription orders and arrests. Likud fears that even a ploy could end in a change of prime minister, if Eisenkot agrees to the demands. The article quotes a Likud source saying: 'The left has one thing we don't know how to give – a commitment that the High Court will uphold.' Bezalel Smotrich is trying to remind them of the old alliance, but the messages are not calming the Haredi anger. The Haredim themselves, according to the article, are preoccupied with the question of who will give them an immediate solution.