T. Belman. This raises a big question. Why doesn’t Yamina work with the Right Wing to pass right wing legislation. Just as it is doing here.
Religious Zionist MK drafts new version of Citizenship Law, aimed at limiting Palestinian Arab family reunification requests.
Right-wing lawmakers in the Opposition are poised to help the Bennett government pass an extension to a law strictly limiting Palestinian Arab requests for family reunification in Israel, according to a report by Israel Hayom.
The report, published Wednesday morning, claimed that months after the coalition failed to pass a bill renewing the 2003 version of Israel’s Citizenship Law, Opposition lawmakers are preparing to work with the government to prevent a wave of family reunification requests by Palestinian Authority residents.
On Sunday, the powerful Ministerial Committee for Legislation – a panel of government ministers empowered to grant official coalition backing to bills in the Knesset – is scheduled to vote on a modified version of the extension to the 2003 Citizenship Law. The new version was drafted by MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party), who had previously submitted an amendment to Israel’s Basic Law, enshrining the 2003 Citizenship Law into Israel’s quasi-constitutional canon.
Rothman’s new draft is similar to the extension of the 2003 law which the government failed to pass in July, but adds explicit quotas more strictly limiting family reunifications, and calls for greater transparency regarding the granting of entry permits to Israel and legal status of Palestinian Authority Arabs in Israel.
“For the first time in the history of the State of Israel, there are coalition officials who want to bring in Arabs from Judea and Samaria into Israel in large numbers,” Rothman said.
“Therefore, we must ensure that the status quo is preserved, and we must set quotas and transparency in the Citizenship Law.”
@Ted, you are correct that a right-wing government with Bennett as DM would be much better than Gantz.
I can see the possibility of Nir Barkat as PM, if the current negotiations with the AG office and Bibi work out with a plea deal where he steps down and is out of politics.
It is my hope that Likud will extend the olive branch to Yamina, New Hope and Yisroel Beitenu and promise them certain portfolios in the new government as an inducement to end the current government.
I totally against Ganz as Def Minister.. Bennett wouled be much better.
@Ted, you have the question backwards why has the right-wing in the opposition not worked with Yamina. Answer they want to drive them out of office and force new elections.
Will this change now that it has leaked that Bibi is trying to work plea deal were he does not serve jail time but retires from political life. Supposedly he initiated negotiations.