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Monday, June 3, 2019
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Monday, June 3, 2019
Netanyahu rejects Smotrich call to rule Israel by Jewish religious law
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that “Israel will not become a Halachic state,” rejecting remarks made by far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich who called for the justice system to adhere to religious Jewish law.
Smotrich, an MK from the Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP), is gunning to be named interim justice minister after Netanyahu fired Ayelet Shaked from the post yesterday.
MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties arrives at a Jerusalem Day event at Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
Earlier today, Smotrich drew ire for saying that Israel should aspire to run itself as “in the days of King David,” adding that party “wants to restore the Torah justice system.”
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