""Aren't you ashamed?": Knesset committee approves Rabbi Peretz's request to split

July 14, 2020   

The Knesset committee approved at noon (Tuesday) the request of the Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage, Rabbi Rafi Peretz, to split the Yamina faction - and establish an independent faction to be called "The Jewish Home, founded by the National Democratic Party." The request was approved by a majority of 10 supporters, 2 opponents, and 1 abstention. How can you become a programmer, paramedic, or multimedia producer without investing a single penny? Rabbi Peretz himself was present at the hearing and asked to split. The Yamina party, which opposed the split, was represented by MK Matan Kahane: "This is not what we promised the voters and we are not giving legitimacy to the split. With all the regret that this entails, from his perspective, Rabbi Rafi Peretz is resigning and not splitting." Knesset Committee Chairman MK Eitan Ginsburg of Blue and White gave the floor to the representative of the Movement for Quality of Government - who claimed: "Minister Peretz received compensation and therefore should be discussed as resigning from Yamina and as someone who acted contrary to the position of his faction and the will of his voters. He belongs to that well-known phenomenon of neutralism following that stinking exercise." The coalition chairman, MK Miki Zohar, resented giving the movement's representative the floor: "What do they have to do with this at all? A movement that has set itself the goal of persecuting Netanyahu, what do they have to talk about here?" Zohar later claimed that Rabbi Peretz is a "righteous man in Sodom." The coalition chairman accused: "Yamina decided to break their election promise to the public in the name of their requests for positions that they did not get." Matan Kahane responded: "How are you not ashamed? You have established a completely left-wing government." MK Elazar Stern of Mish Atid said: "The discussion is not personal, the discussion is how the public views the politicians and the list for the Knesset. We are corrupting the legislature and corrupting the status of the Knesset member. "As low as our status is, when this becomes a culture, there is a problem of morality and honesty in the matter. The concern is not only what is happening in this house, but there is a legacy of defection, and this word is not a word. "Our youth will adopt values ​​of this norm. When Rabbi Peretz joins the government against a bribe and he is not alone and joins Tehila Friedman, Hauser and Handel and Tamano Sheta, there is bribery and a bribe here and that is how people are transferred. Offer them a bribe and a bribe." The discussion took place in light of Rabbi Peretz's appointment as a minister in the Netanyahu government, while the other members of the Yamina faction, on whose behalf he was elected to the Knesset, remained in the opposition. Although Rabbi Peretz was supposed, in light of his steps, to submit a request to split from the faction, this was not done. In practice, Peretz became a member of the government and has since voted in the Knesset as someone who is not a member of the Yamina faction, even though he formally remains a member of the faction.