Inbar Harosh-Giti, a candidate in Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party, and who was involved in establishing recruitment projects in the Defense Ministry, declares that the goal of the new left-wing party is not only to recruit Haredim to the IDF, but to go "over all areas of Haredi life," in order to "dismantle Haredi autonomy.".
Harosh-Giti, who participated in a panel at the Israel Hayom conference this week, explained the method: "Listen, in order to recruit Haredim, this is what someone who was one of the directors of Acharei, who built Kodkod, who established the Haredi settlement yeshivas, who did Ma'alot Tzur, believe me that the Haredim who are in the IDF now are there as a result of some project that I established. In order to do this, there is no choice. Haredi autonomy must be dismantled. It is not just recruitment. It is dismantling Haredi autonomy. The sharp-eyed ones who read all the texts that we have written, both on education, and on the economy, and on service, will see exactly that.".
She later added: "We are going after all areas of Haredi life, and we do not allow Haredi autonomy to exist, because it weakens the State of Israel and makes it less secure and less economically viable.".
When asked which rabbis she was in dialogue with, Harosh-Giti replied that over the years she had worked with senior rabbis in the Haredi sector, but added: "The last thing that needs to be done is to talk to the rabbis who are at the top of the Haredi autonomy pyramid - we need to cut out the middlemen.".
Harosh-Giti also published an article in the journal 'HaShiloh', under the title "How to dismantle Haredi autonomy," in which she presents her ideas.
