N12 correspondent Daphna Liel reports that should Interior Minister Aryeh Deri want to support the coalition's broadcast law in exchange for jobs and kashrut legislation, he will be forced to vote against his rabbis' position. MK Moshe Gafni, she adds, will find it hard to back the bill without his UTJ faction leaders Goldknopf and Deri alongside him.
N12 correspondent Daphna Liel reports on an emerging cross-pressure within the coalition over the controversial broadcast law, which is in its final legislative stages. She details that if Shas chairman Aryeh Deri wishes to secure the coalition's support for his jobs-and-kashrut bill in exchange for backing the broadcast law, he will have to vote against the explicit position of his rabbinical leadership. Simultaneously, UTJ chairman Moshe Gafni is described as reluctant to support the broadcast law without the presence of both UTJ faction leaders — Yitzhak Goldknopf and Deri himself — in the coalition voting lineup. The report highlights a potential rift between Shas and UTJ, and intra-party strains within both, over the trade-offs between media regulation, religious legislation, and political survival. The Zioneer has previously reported on Haredi divisions over the broadcast law and on Shabbat-related red lines.
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