Prime Minister Netanyahu officially informed senior Haredi party leaders Tuesday afternoon that the coalition lacks a majority to pass the daycare funding bill, according to a coalition source cited by N12. The message confirms that the bill, which has been delayed repeatedly, will not advance in its current form without broader coalition discipline.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed senior leaders of the Haredi parties in a formal message Tuesday afternoon that the coalition currently lacks a majority to pass the daycare funding bill ("Chok HaMaonot"), according to a coalition source cited by Israeli media. The bill, which would subsidize daycare for yeshiva students, has become a recurring flashpoint between Likud and its Haredi coalition partners. As The Zioneer reported earlier this week, coalition chair MK Ofir Katz had already told Haredi representatives Monday morning that he does not have the votes, and the bill was not brought to the plenum. United Torah Judaism previously responded by threatening to withhold support for all other coalition legislation. Netanyahu's direct intervention Tuesday—going beyond the coalition chair's earlier warnings—raises the political stakes and signals that resolving the coalition impasse may require a broader negotiation, possibly linking the daycare bill to the Basic Law: Torah Study package.
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