Lapid knocks Likud draft concession to UTJ

29 April 2015, 8:50 pm

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After Likud and UTJ sign a coalition deal, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid says in a statement that Netanyahu sold out Israeli values for the sake of forming a coalition.

“The prime minister, who claims he stands at the head of a Zionist party, today sold the values of equality and jointly bearing the burden to a non-Zionist party,” Lapid says, referring to Netanyahu’s concession of striking down criminal penalties for draft dodgers.

“Netanyahu handed the cost to the public who serves and works, to those same soldiers and reservists who just last summer fiercely defended residents of the south,” Lapid says. “Yesh Atid won’t concede and will fight for this historic law.”