The appointment of Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman as finance minister in the next government is "a declaration of war against a million Haredi citizens of Israel," United Torah Judaism MK Israel Eichler told Israel Radio on Tuesday.
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"If United Torah Judaism were to get the Treasury and the Knesset Finance Committee, the media would have talked about extortion," Eichler said.
Eichler made his comments after Israel Hayom reported that under the coalition agreement, Yisrael Beytenu would secure the Finance portfolio, the Negev and Galilee Development portfolio, and apparently another ministry. In addition, an MK from the party would be appointed head of the Knesset Finance Committee, a role UTJ chair Moshe Gafni currently holds.
Shas MK Yinon Azoulay expressed similar sentiments in an interview to Army Radio.
"Everyone is in [the new government] – the national religious, the Left, and the Arab sector, but not the Haredim. They have a political right to form a government, but they don't have a right to take Haredi children and allow them to go hungry," Azoulay said.
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