Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met this evening (Monday) in his office with the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Israel Eichler - ahead of the approval of the law establishing the Authority to Combat Poverty.
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At the meeting, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the committee chairman discussed the details of the law, which was prepared for second and third reading; and its great importance as an effective and national tool for treating and preventing poverty - with an emphasis on vulnerable families who have not yet contacted the welfare offices.
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The Prime Minister thanked MK Rabbi Eichler for the work of the Labor and Welfare Committee during the war on behalf of the abductees and their families, and for formulating assistance programs for evacuees, war victims, and reserve soldiers and their families.
This is a maintenance meeting between the Prime Minister and the Haredi MKs who are not threatening to bring down the government.
As reported in Haredim 10, on Thursday, three members of the Agudat Yisrael faction sent a letter to the prime minister in which they made it clear that they would not vote in favor of the state budget - if the conscription law is not enacted before the budget is approved.
The letter was signed by Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, MK Yaakov Tesler, and MK Moshe Shimon Roth. Minister Meir Porush and MK Israel Eichler did not affix their signatures to the letter.
It should be noted that the "Gur-Wiznitz axis" has only two votes in the Knesset, as Moshe Roth, the representative of the Sanz Hasidism, is "Norwegian.".
The Agudat Yisrael Torah Elders Council has not decided, at this time, that the faction should vote against the budget.
