Bibi has weeks to defuse the time bomb under his coalition
IF you too find yourself frantically juggling between work or learning and Pesach preparations, you may be surprised to hear who went on spring break last weekend. Believe it or not, despite Israel’s most difficult war in decades, the Knesset went on recess last Thursday, and won’t meet again until a few weeks after Pesach, after Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut.
A motion to cancel the recess was advanced by opposition leader Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beiteinu chair Avigdor Lieberman. But the duo were beclowned by the Knesset attendance statistics released the same week, which showed what everyone already knew: Lapid and Lieberman have among the worst attendance records in the Knesset.
Degel HaTorah chairman Moshe Gafni once told me that back in the day, Rav Shach ztz”l instructed chareidi MKs to oppose shortening the Knesset recess, explaining that every day that the Knesset is on recess is one less day of chillul Hashem. But this time is different, as the recess comes at a uniquely inopportune moment for the chareidi community.
The High Court decision to subject all yeshivah bochurim to the draft and deprive yeshivos and kollels of state funding makes it impossible for chareidi politicians to spend the recess hiding their heads in the sand.
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