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Monday, January 1, 2018
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Monday, January 1, 2018
Lapid says Yesh Atid prepared to fight Shabbat bill in court
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleYair Lapid says his Yesh Atid party is prepared to go to court if a bill that would shutter mini-markets on Shabbat passes into law.
Speaking at a Yesh Atid faction meeting, Lapid says ultra-Orthodox parties are backing the bill because they “want to show they can tell secular and traditional people how to live.”
“We’ll fight this law with all our strength here in the Knesset, in the court, in the streets and the [city] squares. This isn’t a war over religion, this is a war for freedom and for the right to vote, and so no one will tell us how to live,” he says.
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