MK Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) has decided to submit a new law proposal to amend the current discrimination law. The amendment would make it illegal to ban a group of people from joining the government coalition just because they are haredim.
Someone who breaks this law, according to the proposal, would be punished with up to 10 years in prison, along with the invalidation of any action that was achieved as a result of the transgression.
Litzman explained in his proposal that in this last government coalition that was recently formed, a group chose to ban the representatives of a significant group of the population from joining the government, only because they are haredim. This expression was not rejected and the government was eventually formed on that basis.
Litzman further explains, there is no place for such banning of haredim in a thoughtful society that values and respects others as they are despite the differences between them. This phenomenon must be uprooted from its roots.
Litzman agrees that whether the haredi representatives are in or out of the government is a political issue and can conclude at different times either way, but banning them just because they are haredim with peyos and beards, as was explicitly stated, is unacceptable.
(source: JDN)
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