Ayelet Shaked
The agreements reached between the Likud and Habayit Hayehudi pave the way for Netanyahu to form his fourth government.
Likud and Habayit Hayehudi coalition negotiating teams have reached an agreement: MK Ayelet Shaked will be appointed Minister of Justice, and will head the Ministerial Committee on Legislation. Shaked will also be a member of the Security Cabinet.
This paves the way for the establishment of Netanyahu’s fourth government. The time allotted for Netanyahu to form a coalition expires tonight at midnight.
According to the agreements that are expected to be signed with Habayit Hayehudi, party head Naftali Bennett will become Minister of Education, Uri Ariel will become Minister of Agriculture, and Ayelet Shaked will be appointed Minister of Justice. In addition, the party is expected to receive the position of Deputy Minister of Defense, responsible for the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria.
Ayelet Shaked, says Judea and Samaria settlement pioneer Daniella Weiss, is the right person in the right place at the right time to serve as Justice Minister. “There are many issues – land ownership rights, construction permits, residents,the status of communities, and more – that she will have to deal with. And I am sure she will deal with them successfully.”
According to reports, Likud has agreed to appoint Jewish Home’s Shaked as the new Justice Minister. Shaked’s appointment is considered a major political coup and could potentially pave the way for an historic change in Israeli politics. The judicial system in Israel is considered to be the strongest governmentalbastion of the leftist founding elites, and its “activism” has hampered attempts by the Right to effectively rule Israel for decades.
“Many of the issues she will have an opportunity to deal with have been the sole responsibility of the left,” said Weiss, the now-retired long-time Mayor of the Samaria town of Kedumim. “It’s time that the right had an opportunity to manage these issues, to truly rule the country and not allow the courts to dictate the state’s attitude to Judea and Samaria, as has been the case until now.”
It’s definitely a “bump-up” for Jewish Home, Weiss said. “Education, Culture and Sport, and other such portfolios are important, but they would have kept the party away from the real essence of rulership.” The decision by Yisrael Beytenu’s Avigdor Liberman not to join the government paved the way for new possibilities, said Weiss. “Now Jewish Home had an opportunity to demand the Justice Ministry, and thus it will be a full partner in dealing with matters of national security.” Both the Justice Minister and the Education Minister – the task allocated to Jewish Home party head Naftali Bennett – will be members of the “inner security cabinet,” where major government security decisions are made.
Leftist MKs and activists have sharply criticized the prospect that Shaked would be Justice Minister. Yariv Oppenheimer, head of the Peace Now organization, tweeted, “Shaked as Justice Minister is like placing an idol in the Temple. No less.” MK Nachman Shai (Labor) also condemned the possible move, saying, “the demand to give Ayelet Shaked the Justice portfolio is like giving the Fire and Rescue Services to a pyromaniac.” According to MK Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin of Labor – or, as it is formally known, the Zionist Union – “Shaked will be an anti-law and justice minister, a minister who will fight the legal system instead of strengthening it, a minister who might push the rule of law in Israel toward a dangerous abyss. The appointment of Ayelet Shaked is comparable to the appointment of Yair Lapid as Religions Minister,” Verbin added.
06/05/2015, 13:54
Lilach Weissman
The agreements reached between the Likud and Habayit Hayehudi pave the way for Netanyahu to form his fourth government.
Likud and Habayit Hayehudi coalition negotiating teams have reached an agreement: MK Ayelet Shaked will be appointed Minister of Justice, and will head the Ministerial Committee on Legislation. Shaked will also be a member of the Security Cabinet.
This paves the way for the establishment of Netanyahu’s fourth government. The time allotted for Netanyahu to form a coalition expires tonight at midnight.
According to the agreements that are expected to be signed with Habayit Hayehudi, party head Naftali Bennett will become Minister of Education, Uri Ariel will become Minister of Agriculture, and Ayelet Shaked will be appointed Minister of Justice. In addition, the party is expected to receive the position of Deputy Minister of Defense, responsible for the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria.
@ Goldi: Kudos indeed and in all fairness, my apology to Mr. Netanyahu for doubting him.
Still out of many years of pain and loss I will keep a close tab on what happens.
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Shaked can do marvels if fear is not used to prevent that.
The judicial system is in desperate need for a clean of planted operatives working against law and Jewish values.
Education has been brutally coerced into accepting enemies of the Jewish people and Heritage and those must be severed out.
This is as good as it gets. Will the coalition stick together, no one knows. But for the time being; Shaked as Justice Minister, and Bennett as Education, they can do wonders for the future of Israel. EDUCATION IS KEY to our survival. Our future is in our youth, our students, who sadly never received proper education about our LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE LAND. It is time past for reform of our school system. And Shaked, beautiful, principled Shaked, Hurray! Reform in the Justice system is highly recommended. What a change from Livni to Shaked! Hurray again.!
@ yamit82:
I am fairly certain there never can be and never will be any formal agreed Palestine state. Their Fatah leadership, which is precisely the gang that runs their show, not only hates Jews but also despises Jews, and they think they are masters of the Middle East universe because the UNO, the EU, the US State Department, and Hussein Obama smiles at them with fondness. Which, they are certain, saves them from the ultimate disgrace of having to negotiate with Jews in general and Zionist Jews at that.
So even if Netanyahu wants to divest Israel of Shomron and Yehuda, neither he nor anyone else are likely to have the opportunity to do so. Toda l’El that He made those Arabs all so stupidly hateful. Otherwise, Israel would been done for right from the starting line back in the dreamland days of San Remo, or wherever else modern Jews began believing their own bullshit.
In any case, the Jewish population of Area C, even now, continues to grow, and grow, and grow, as urban sprawl works its wonders in Judea and Samaria the same way it does in Dane and Rock counties in southern Wisconsin. The day will come when that population is large enough, and self-organized enough, and radicalized enough, that any Israeli politician who would make serious moves to threaten them with expulsion would be risking removal by means of 9 millimeter justice, and maybe civil war as well. Too bad, but that’s exactly what happens in every healthy society in the world, when and if the government itself turns traitor against its own people. Any of you think otherwise? Start reading history without rose-colored glasses. And that certainly includes Jewish history.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
@ Ted Belman:
I concur. Netanyahu’s instinct is not to do anything controversial. The makeup of this government ensures negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs are a dead letter. There is no prospect for peace on the horizon and I don’t expect any dramatic change in policy in the incoming government.
@ yamit82:
Netanyahu’s problem is the Likud would lose out on major power ministries if he brought in Labor. Right now his faction has a commanding majority in the Cabinet. Why share power when you don’t have to? He doesn’t trust Livni and Lapid and remember he fired them last year. Ideologically, his coalition partners won’t give him trouble. The next four years should be smooth sailing.
@ Ted Belman:
BB still wants to divest most of the territories and see some agreed formal Palis state… Right now any coalition partner can bring down the governement. He is in the worst position he has ever been since his first colition and they brought him down. He needs the left to blame for many of his anti jewish and Zionist policies, can he now continue to halt all building in Jerusdalerm and the territories??? Can he make deals with the Palis behind the backs of the cabinet and government? Can he continue to block Levi report? Will he be able to make half hearted war again with Hamas? He is pretty much shackled everywhere he looks if he is opposed strongly by any of his constituent partners, He needs labor or at least part of them. There is talk of getting back at leiberman by stealing 2or 3 of Leibermans MK’s. He is counting on the political wisdom that his partners have too much to lose if they oppose him and won’t topple the government but he has some deological partners and any of them might oppose him. Remember BB is a political coward and wuss, he caves to any pressure who he feels threatens his throne. I have said that he has earned such personal hatered by everyone that he can’t trust them and they can’t trust him. I have predicted long ago the Lieberman would pull th rug out if he could… he hates BB, Bennett likewise and the religious parties have a long accounting with him…After his Likud MK’s realize what jobs are left them they will all be sharpening their knives. He Needs Labor to keep the rest in line and to unshackle his room for maneuver.
@ Ted Belman: We will see if Kahlon goes along with what will happen. You could be right. This is no worse than six parties with 6 more seats would have been. See if anyone in coalition balks on actually voting for the stuff agreed to in the coalition agreement.
If Bennett gets building in Y/S and Jerusalem he will stick with this deal.
Who knows it could work out. Obama will be unable to pressure this government because if he does and Bibi goes along the government could very likely fall.
@ Ted Belman:
Ted, if Netanyahu is as sagacious as I think him to be, he will try to get Liberman’s Yisrael Beteinu back on board with his rightist coalition. At the same time, for immediate purposes, he must acquiesce in power sharing not only with Bennett’s HaBayit HaYehudi but also with that party’s troublesome Tekuma faction that stirred up last-minute waves this week.
Sometimes, it all but blows my mind that Israel even survives under control of governments structured and assembled in a system that resembles the urban political machines in most of the major cities of this country until shortly after World War 2. But, as they say around here: “What you see is what you get.”
In any case, Bennett and the rest of the rightists will have their hands on certain of the buttons and switches of the machinery of governance that controls the pace and location of Jewish development in Shomron, Yehuda, and maybe East Jerusalem as well. Meantime, Netanyahu has kept Ya’alon, whom he strongly trusts, as defense minister, Kachlon as tsar of the country’s economy, and a woman of steel as justice minister. If they all can manage to stick it out together, and hopefully get Liberman back to help out, this could all prove to be some years of solid achievement for Israel and the Jewish nation.
Assuming everything gets signed on the bottom lines when they meet with Rivlin tonight, then and only then will I say “Kol HaKavod!”
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Bibi has finally gotten his comeuppance. Maybe now Israel will a a true conservative and national government.
Bibi says he wants to enlarge the government.Except for ensuring its continuance should Bennett leave, is there any other value in it. Doesn’t it make it harder to agree on anything. No other party will threaten to leave. They already got all they wanted.
With Yisrael Beinteinu in opposition, Netanyahu found himself paying a higher price at the end then he had to. I’m quite satisfied with the makeup of the new government.
BB is now learning the truth that Jimmy Durante once taught: “Be careful who you kick on your way up, because they’ll kick you back on your way down.”
She will have one of the most difficult assignments ever.
The whole infested system including the media will sabotage her and changes.
We must support the new minister.