Labor Chairman Merav Michaeli congratulated the government on the budget's approval at the start of the faction's meeting today (Monday).
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""We have achieved far-reaching achievements. Look at what we did with only 7 seats, think about what the budget will look like when the Labor Party forms a government in the future and returns to lead the government," she enthused.
Michaela pledged in her words to address the marriage monopoly in Israel: "Apart from the budget, the happiest thing that happened to us this week is of course the gold medal of Artyom Dolgopyat, an amazing gymnast and a charming and wonderful man, and only one thing he is not - he is not a groom.
""He is not a groom because the State of Israel does not allow him to marry within its borders, and this is something that simply cannot continue. Friends, I am announcing to you unequivocally, just as we abolished the monopoly on kashrut this morning in the Arrangements Law – so the time has come to completely abolish the monopoly on marriage in Israel.".
She emphasized: "No one even thought that the kashrut monopoly could be abolished, and look, it's a miracle. Very soon, when we pass it in the Knesset, there will simply be no monopoly on kashrut.".
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""This is how we intend to continue to act, because this faction has always worked to abolish the marriage monopoly, and we will continue in this Knesset to work to abolish it, because the time has come for everyone to be able to marry, however they choose, or he chooses, according to his or her faith.".
