source: Kooker, among others
I find it very interesting that it is specifically Avihai Mandelblit, the new State Attorney General who is himself a frum (Haredi, even) Jew, is the one person in the entire government that is bold enough to stand up and tell Gafni that he cannot do something.
Everybody else is worried about coalition stability and politics, and Mandelblit is the one guy saying no, and it is on a religious issue that one would think would be close to his heart and he would be pretty close to Gafni in his opinion of the matter.
I am not accusing Mandelblit of being an "Uncle Tom" or having the need to prove himself as not biased towards Haredi interests, as people worry will happen whenever a Jews runs for office in the United States. Mandelblit seems like a good, honest guy serving with integrity and I am sure he truly finds the current proposal to be bad and has the strength to stand up to it where nobody else does due to personal interests.
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