Mualem: Jewish Home not seeking gains, just to protect Israel

The head of the Jewish Home Knesset faction, MK Shuli Mualem, says her party is not seeking to gain extra ministries in the changes to the coalition, but rather to properly protect the people of Israel.

Responding to criticism of the party’s demand for better intelligence-sharing with the security cabinet as a condition for agreeing to the expand the government, Mualem says: “According to reports and the [findings] of the Winograd Committee, the security cabinet is improperly managed, as its members are not given the comprehensive information they deserve.

“For as long as Minister Bennett’s demand to remedy the situation is unmet, the misinformation continues,” she says, according to Israel National News.

Mualem adds, “If the prime minister would like to change the structure of the coalition, the Jewish Home faction will give its consent as long as a military secretary is added to the cabinet. Jewish Home does not require ministerial portfolios and asks for no money, only to allow the political echelon to function correctly in upholding the security of Israel and its citizens.”