On the United Torah Judaism’s (Degel HaTorah) official website, a new article was published that calls on the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Israeli Knesset to recalculate their course in their support of the judicial reform legislation. The appearance of an article like this on the official site of a major Haredi political party that is a part of the coalition could signal a tacit rejection of the policy by the leadership.

In the article under the title "For Yavneh and its sages," it is written: "Since the court does not operate according to the laws of the Torah of Moses and does not derive its authority from the power of the Torah, then even if all the corrections of those who seek to correct the distortion are corrected, we as Torah-observing Jews have no interest in this place."

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It is further written: "After correcting the ‘Reasonableness Clause’, we must recalculate a course and ask ourselves whether this should be done at any cost. It is something in which we have no direct interest, do we have to bear the burden of the results of this war?".

In the article it was clarified: "It is true that certain clauses are necessary in order to preserve the status of the members of the Yeshivas and to prevent damage to all the holy things of Israel, a preservation that cannot be waived in any way and in any way - and in particular when this requirement was given a commitment in the coalition agreement. But if there is another way to achieve this principle and goal, is it right to aim the poison arrows in the air in the direction of the pure hearts of the members of the Yeshiva?" This is a surprising and new position that coming out from the website that supports the UTJ party in the Knesset, which up until this point was willing to sacrifice much for the passing of the judicial reform legislation.”

It’s worth noting this comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that certain clauses which concerned many in the Israeli public were removed from the agenda, Degal HaTorah Chairman Moshe Gafni told Netanyahu at the meeting of the coalition heads that he demands to uphold what is stipulated in the coalition agreements and to enact a comprehensive vote on all the clauses.

#Israel judicial reform will return after passing of budget, #Netanyahu says https://t.co/eWdobMNbj6 Both #Agudat Yisrael, the Hassidic faction within United Torah Judaism (UTJ) and #Otzma Yehudit were promised NIS 250 million in coalition funding, which they will receive soon

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The Knesset's Constitution Committee, chaired by MK Simcha Rothman, approved Wednesday night by a majority of nine supporters against seven opponents the text of the law to abolish the “Clause of Reasonableness”, ahead of a second and third reading in the Knesset plenum. The discussions in the Constitution Committee lasted for many long hours, with tens of thousands of votes and countless confrontations.