Minister Amsalem: “Solberg Is More Stupid Than Antisemitic”

Ahead of the vote on the Basic Law: Torah Study, Amsalem opened an attack on the attorney general and Supreme Court justices on Kan Reshet Bet, saying they are “acting in an antisemitic manner.” About Solberg, he said: “He is collaborating with forces that want to erase Judaism.” The ministers decided that the wording of the bill would be changed to remove any comparison to IDF servicemembers.

Against the backdrop of the Basic Law: Torah Study bill going to a preliminary reading vote in the Knesset plenum today, Wednesday, Minister Dudi Amsalem (Likud) attacked Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, her deputy Gil Limon, and Justice Noam Solberg, the deputy president of the Supreme Court. In an interview on “Kalman-Liberman” on Kan Reshet Bet, Amsalem said that the attorney general and her deputy are “acting in an antisemitic manner.”

According to him, “The value of Torah study has become a term used to persecute people. Anyone who persecutes Torah learners is antisemitic. From Miara, through Limon, to the Supreme Court.”

About the deputy president of the Supreme Court, Justice Solberg, outside whose home violent protest took place last week, Minister Amsalem said: “I think he is more stupid than antisemitic. He is collaborating with forces that want to erase the foundations of Judaism in Israel, and he does not understand it. When I ask him about hesder yeshivas that serve for a year and a half, and about the fact that I served three years... why shouldn’t we also reduce the hesder.”

As mentioned, the Basic Law: Torah Study will go to a vote today, after agreements were reached in the ministerial committee for legislation, according to which the wording will be changed later so it will not include a comparison between Torah students and IDF servicemembers. The wording change follows a demand by Knesset members in Likud and Religious Zionism.