MK Omer Yankelevich of the Blue and White faction was a guest at the Beit Yaakov Shchernsky Seminar in Tel Aviv, and was received - according to a report from her spokesperson team - with royal honors by the senior staff of the Mossad.
The MK's visit caused a stir, and MK Moshe Gafni was outraged and wrote: "I was shocked to hear that a MK from a secular faction, whose goal is to harm everything sacred and precious to the Jewish people, visited and was received with great respect by the seminary management. And to the point of disgrace and outrage.".
Gafni, like Gafni, is always 'shocked' and usually also 'amazed', but in the present case, it would not be incorrect to say that from his perspective - there is definitely a basis for his 'astonishment'.
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What does MK Omer Yankelevich say?
That an ultra-Orthodox woman is allowed to hold senior political positions, that she is allowed to be a member of Knesset, and that she is even able to assist Haredi institutions in places where, in her opinion, Knesset members from the sector do not do so.
The seminars, on the other hand, consistently preach the exact opposite: an ultra-Orthodox woman is not allowed to be elected to the Knesset, cannot win other political positions, and she probably knows no more than men what is good for ultra-Orthodox women.
This woman, who actually spits on the central concept of the seminar, was received with respect at the Shchernsky Seminary.
In this sense, MK Omer Yankelevich is fundamentally different from other secular figures who have visited Haredi institutions, such as the secular - and sometimes opposing - education ministers of their generations, since in the eyes of Haredi educationists, they are nothing more than the "goy", the "fritz" from whom the little money given must be saved, as in the classic parable of the apples.
Indeed, Yankelevich, a seminary graduate, is not only a talented Haredi who speaks the language well, she says in every nuance of her essence to her past managers: 'It's also possible otherwise.'.
Will the day be far off when a seminarian from Mashransky will come and demand membership in United Torah Judaism? How am I different from Omer the Queen? - she will say.
For Gafni, and it must be said honestly for a significant portion of the Haredi public - the meaning of this is a disaster.
In this respect, therefore, the chairman of the Finance Committee is right.
