Lapid accuses ministers of dealing ‘fatal blow’ to IDF troops with daycare bill

Members of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation who voted in favor of the “‘evasion financing law” have dealt a fatal blow to the IDF soldiers and reservists today,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid declares, following the committee’s approval of the so-called Daycare Law.

“This is an irreparable betrayal of our hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded fighters. Is their blood cheap?” he tweets. “The humiliating law must not get a majority in the Knesset.”

Lapid’s outrage is echoed by former religious services minister Matan Kahana (National Unity), who calls the bill “a slap in the face of the reservists.”

“The meaning of this law is the whitewashing and budgeting of evasion,” he says. “If any of the Zionist ministers have even an iota of care left for those who serve, let them immediately file an appeal with the government secretariat and stop the progress of this humiliating law.”