"There is no hatred here": Lapid responds to criticism of his attitude towards the ultra-Orthodox

In the background of the processes of passing the state budget, the leader of the opposition and chairman of the Yesh Atid party, Yair Lapid, wrote a stormy post on Twitter today (Thursday), in which he attacked the current government.

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"The ultra-Orthodox politicians have a method: as soon as you criticize them, or express a slight doubt of their righteousness, they immediately shout 'Orthodox hatred! Anti-Semitism!' And everyone shrugs and shuts up. After all, hate is a terrible thing. So no, God forbid, there is no hate here. On the contrary, the discussion is about love. We love our children, and we see how our money is being used to destroy their future. The ongoing robbery of the public purse Before our eyes is also the robbery of the future," wrote Lapid.

"This year, 20 percent of first-graders are ultra-Orthodox. The ultra-Orthodox politicians don't just condemn their own children to poverty, they condemn the entire Israeli society to poverty. In the past, the State of Israel could finance the ultra-Orthodox who do not work, because the numbers were much smaller. It has already Can't. Our children won't stand it." Lapid warned: "Economically, they are going to be the first generation of the country to be poorer than their parents. Evaluatively, no matter how you spin it, this is an unfair social contract, because an increasing share of the income of the Israeli middle class will be used to support people who do not work."

Approval of the state budget at the cabinet meeting (photo: no credit)

He explained: "The problem is that even now only 51% of ultra-Orthodox men work, and in the future they will work much less, because this will be the result of the budget that is being passed now. Billions of shekels will be invested to make sure that in ultra-Orthodox schools they will not learn a profession, they will not learn math and English. If they try to leave For the labor market, their allowances will suffer."

He also warned that "we are the only country in the world that pays people money to make sure that they do not acquire a profession and do not work. The government invests unprecedented amounts to make sure that these children do not join the labor market in the future. An ultra-Orthodox family has an average of 6.7 children (according to CBS data). This is what our children will have to finance."

Finally, Lapid concluded: "What the State of Israel needs is exactly the opposite. Vocational training programs on a wide scale, adaptation of mathematics and English studies to the ultra-Orthodox education systems, encouragement of business entrepreneurship in the ultra-Orthodox sector, setting as a national goal the percentage of ultra-Orthodox in the US and Europe who have a degree academic. The problem is not Judaism, nor learning Torah, the problem is that I don't know what to tell my children. I don't know how to explain to them that the Israeli government has decided to finance the destruction of their future, and it is doing it with their father's and mother's money."