Will There Be a Haredi-Left Government Led by Lieberman?

Translation:

Will There Be a Haredi-Left Government Led by Lieberman?

After a week of mass liquidation of all values, banners and principles, anything can still happen. But there are quite a few obstacles and barriers along the way that are worth following:

1. The people leading the move on the Haredi side are Rabbi Landau’s loyalist, David Shapira, together with representatives of Gur. They account for 5 of the 7 Knesset members of United Torah Judaism, and 5 of the 13 representatives of the entire Haredi sector (including Shas).

2. Lieberman may have forgiven the Haredim, but the quarrels and rivalries among them have not disappeared. There is a long way to go to persuade and recruit everyone to support the move: Rabbi Hillel Hirsch’s circle, the Hasidim, and the Sephardim.

3. The proposal on the table calls for a “temporary order” for a period of approximately a year and a half, during which Haredim would neither be drafted nor arrested. The situation would be frozen, without a conscription law, quotas, exemptions or sanctions. The rabbis will rightly want to know what happens afterward, and whether other anti-religious laws will be introduced in parallel. Yair Golan and Lazimi are asking the same questions.

4. This proposal needs a “bank guarantee” in the form of the Attorney General’s Office (Gil Limon and Hagai Harush), the legal adviser to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Miri Frenkel-Shor, who brought down the Bismuth law over far less than this, and Deputy Attorney General Avital Sompolinsky. The archives and protocols are full of their unequivocal positions on this issue.

5. The rumors circulating are that Lieberman received a message from Yitzhak Amit saying, “Everything will be fine.” But the person who headed the panel that struck down the law abolishing arrests and requiring the enforcement of sanctions is Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg, a man of Religious Zionism. Serving alongside him on that panel was another representative of the sector, Justice Yael Wilner. Many of their fellow members of the sector voted for Lieberman (or for Winter, Bennett or Hendel) because they were certain that their word was their word and that they would insist on the “servants’ alliance.” You need to go to the synagogues this coming Shabbat to see the shock and sense of betrayal and understand that it is far from certain that the judges will go along with this political arrangement and agree to legitimize it.

6. If, nevertheless, Lieberman manages to secure 13 votes from the Haredim, with the rabbis’ agreement, and overcome the legal obstacle, he will be the next prime minister. This means that Gadi Eisenkot and Bennett will have to serve under him. Each of them believes he is more suited to be prime minister than Lieberman. They will not help him reach the moment of declaring, “I have succeeded in forming a government,” and they certainly will not make his term easy. At the first opportunity, they will try to remove him and succeed him, and the whole arrangement will fall apart.

7. Not to mention that, in such a scenario, Eisenkot may reconsider his options and say to himself: Instead of serving as defense minister under Lieberman, perhaps a national unity government with Likud alone is worth considering.

8. And we haven’t even discussed Likud and the Right, which will fight as the opposition in any case of a Left-plus-Haredi/Arab government. They have already proven that they know how to bring down a “change government” within a year. On the other hand, there are the Arab parties, which had come all the way to the trough, only to be told now that they are not part of the game and will not even receive crumbs from the spoils.

And for all this to happen, there are just a little more than 30 days left to wrap everything up.

Good luck.

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November 13, 2026 | Comments »

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