Likud MK Calls to Break the Alliance With the Haredi Parties

MK Dan Illouz (Likud) published unusually harsh remarks this morning, Thursday, against his party’s political partnership with the Haredi parties, and publicly called for the alliance to be dismantled, a move that could lead to political upheaval.

"The sanctification of the faith-based bloc at any cost has become idolatry that endangers the very existence of the State of Israel," Illouz charged at the start of his remarks, pointing a direct finger at the Haredi leadership amid the conscription law crisis and the public storm surrounding it.

"A recipe for collapse" In his remarks, the Likud MK referred to the military’s immediate need for manpower in the midst of the war effort. "The army needs fighters, but the Haredi power brokers are demanding to prevent enlistment דווקא during a milchemet mitzvah," Illouz wrote. "When you add to that the efforts to prevent integration into the economy while the Haredi population is growing rapidly, you get a recipe for collapse."

Illouz stressed the heavy burden being borne by the public over recent months: "Those paying the price are the serving and working הציבור, who are collapsing under the burden."

A call to change course on the right

The MK also referred to the political pressure the Haredi parties are exerting on Likud to advance exemption laws and budget laws, accompanied by constant threats to the government’s stability. "The legislative blitz they are pushing now, while constantly threatening to break up the bloc, proves one thing: in order to implement the path of the right, we are the ones who need to break this alliance," he declared.

Illouz concluded by calling on his party to present voters with a different ideological alternative, independent of the Haredim. "Our national responsibility is to stop being afraid of political considerations, and to stand before the voter with a clear national and liberal path. Only this way will we ensure a real, strong and responsible right," he said.