After all that, after the incendiary election campaign, after the invective thrown back and forth and the incessant fighting and bad blood generated in the process, the Finance Ministry is now saying they do not even have the money necessary to draft the haredim. Implementing such a process is very expensive, creating new units, incentivizing the target draftees, etc. With all the budget cuts, they just cannot come up with the money necessary for these programs.
(source: NRG)
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, applying his wit and cynicism to the situation, says that despite current statements, he expects the Finance Ministry will be able to find and come up with the money necessary, as they turned this into a big issue. he said that this is an attempt to force them to cut money from elsewhere so that they will be able to use available funds for the draft of haredim.
It turns out, if this is the way it is going to go down, that there was not even a need to ban the haredim from the coalition. The purpose of that was to be able to push forth the agenda of drafting the haredim, and of implementing a core curriculum in the haredi educational system, without having to deal with the opposition and haggling of haredi coalition partners. if that is not going to happen, there was no reason to ban the haredim from the coalition.
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