Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, who initially opposed advancing the law freezing the detention of Torah student "deserters," was under massive pressure from the Prime Minister's Office - demanding that he change his position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initially, with the decision to advance the law that the ultra-Orthodox factions were pushing with all their might, the Minister of Defense delayed for many days - and refused to deliver his letter of support for the law. As part of the persuasion efforts, the Prime Minister promised Katz that he would support the law publicly and even participate in the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netanyahu did arrive by helicopter from the Negev Conference in Dimona, entered the plenary session - but at the moment of truth he was absent from the vote on the third reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netanyahu's office provided the reason: The Prime Minister received a "diplomatic phone call" and had to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But today it turns out that there was probably another reason: the prime minister has a deserter grandson - and he didn't want to make a statement about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commentator Shari Roth wrote this morning: "My tweet from January. According to the opinion of the Knesset legal advisor, if Netanyahu had voted in favor of the law preventing arrests of 'deserters' who study Torah, he would have had to provide proper disclosure. From here you will continue on your own.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\""A conversation with Leitner? A war with Iran? There's a chance the reason is simpler.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In late January, she wrote: "Surprising statistic, I don't know what it means. Netanyahu has a grandson (the son of Daniel and Noa Roth, Noa is his daughter from his first marriage to Mickey Hearn) who is approaching military service age. He's a deserter. That's it. No punch.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalist Ben Caspit wrote in Maariv: "Suddenly it hit me. It's possible that Benjamin Netanyahu also has a conflict of interest. After all, the man has four Haredi grandchildren. What Haredi, ultra-Haredi. A kind of Neturi Karta. His eldest daughter, Noa, a mother of four. The daughter who was erased from her father's life. Who was disappeared from the public. She's not even present-absent. She's just absent. But she's his daughter. The biological one. He loved her very much, at the time. Until what happened happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\""A good lawyer, or a close state comptroller, or both, would have pulled him out of this disappearance: he has a deserter grandson, he couldn't participate in the vote." But Netanyahu, Caspit wrote, "didn't have enough courage to cling to this excuse. And if he had tried, it would have cost him dearly.".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05d8\u05d7\u05d5\u05df \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05db\"\u05e5, \u05e9\u05d4\u05ea\u05e0\u05d2\u05d3 \u05ea\u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e7\u05d9\u05d3\u05d5\u05dd \u05d7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d4\u05e7\u05e4\u05d0\u05ea \u05de\u05e2\u05e6\u05e8 '\u05e2\u05e8\u05d9\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd' \u05dc\u05d5\u05de\u05d3\u05d9 \u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4, \u05d4\u05d9\u05d4 \u05e0\u05ea\u05d5\u05df \u05dc\u05dc\u05d7\u05e5 \u05de\u05d0\u05e1\u05d9\u05d1\u05d9 \u05de\u05e6\u05d3 \u05dc\u05e9\u05db\u05ea \u05e8\u05d0\u05e9 \u05d4\u05de\u05de\u05e9\u05dc\u05d4 - \u05d1\u05d3\u05e8\u05d9\u05e9\u05d4 \u05e9\u05d9\u05e9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d0\u05ea \u05e2\u05de\u05d3\u05ea\u05d5. \u05d1\u05ea\u05d7\u05d9\u05dc\u05d4, \u05e2\u05dd \u05d4\u05d4\u05d7\u05dc\u05d8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05e7\u05d3\u05dd \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05d7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05e9\u05d4\u05e1\u05d9\u05e2\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05d7\u05e8\u05d3\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d3\u05d7\u05e4\u05d5 \u05d1\u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05db\u05d5\u05d7, \u05e9\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d9\u05d8\u05d7\u05d5\u05df \u05d4\u05ea\u05e2\u05db\u05d1 \u05d1\u05de\u05e9\u05da \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05e8\u05d5\u05db\u05d9\u05dd - \u05d5\u05e1\u05d9\u05e8\u05d1 \u05dc\u05de\u05e1\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d0\u05ea \u05de\u05db\u05ea\u05d1 \u05d4\u05ea\u05de\u05d9\u05db\u05d4 \u05e9\u05dc\u05d5 \u05d1\u05d7\u05d5\u05e7. \u05d1\u05de\u05e1\u05d2\u05e8\u05ea \u05de\u05d0\u05de\u05e6\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e9\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05e2, \u05e8\u05d0\u05e9 […]","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1047832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[379,65938],"class_list":["post-1058920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1","tag-379","tag-65938"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n