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Sa’ar says his party will oppose Haredi daycare bill in Knesset
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Gideon Sa’ar, the chairman of the coalition’s New Hope party, says that his party will vote against the ultra-Orthodox Daycare Law approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation this afternoon.
“The enactment of the law during the current state of affairs will convey a message of encouraging evasion from service in the IDF and will assist in doing so,” he tweets.
“We cannot harm the value of service in the IDF, those who serve and their families who carry the heavy burden of the country’s security on their shoulders. Therefore, if the proposal approved today by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation is brought to the Knesset Plenum for a vote — we will vote against it.”
The government, he adds, “must strive to carry out significant moves that increase the participation of all sections of the public” in military service.
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