A crazy thing is taking place on full display, which could inflict damage on Israel that could take years to repair, if at all. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is preaching morality and clashing with the one whose hand we eat from.
The best plan for the day after –- it is time to muster courage and say it out loud – is us, the State of Israel, with the IDF on the ground and with a civilian administration that will operate in the Gaza Strip. Anything else will be temporary and short-lived at best, or at worst – a deception and a fraud, from its very inception; a recipe for the renewed, early or late, flourishing of Gaza terrorism.
The new measures, if enacted, would mean that Haredim who enlist would get benefits while those who do not would be financially hurt through what is called “negative incentives.” However, the details could be crucial. If the sanctions are merely in the form of smaller budgets for yeshivot, it will be very easy for ultra-Orthodox representatives to circumvent them by increasing the yeshiva funding by other means.
The prime minister spoke to Republicans via video link nearly a week after the Senate's Democratic majority leader, Chuck Schumer, gave a Senate speech branding Netanyahu an obstacle to peace and urging new elections in Israel.
The arrest took place during the Israeli military's raid at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
