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Otzma Yehudit says won’t accept alleged deal to see Ra’am abstain on rabbis bill
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The far-right Otzma Yehudit party accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud of entering into a “political deal” with the Shas and Ra’am parties in order to pass a controversial bill regulating municipal rabbis in the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee.
Otzma Yehudit claims that the deal would see Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas abstain from voting on the measure. The party, which accuses Ra’am of supporting terror, though the latter party has repeatedly spoken out against terrorism, says it will not cooperate with such a deal.
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