Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, president of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, instructed the party to support the Communications Law in exchange for advancing the Basic Law: Torah Study and the Kashrut Law, according to a ynet report.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, president of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, has directed the party to support Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi's broadcast bill, in exchange for legislative progress on the Basic Law: Torah Study and the Kashrut Law, according to a report by ynet. The instruction represents a direct intervention by the party's top spiritual authority to secure the coalition deal, following earlier reports that Shas was expected to back the bill in return for the Torah Study Basic Law. The three-way legislative package — the Communications Law (media reform), the Basic Law: Torah Study (which enshrines a right to Torah study as a basic principle), and the Kashrut Law (regulating kosher certification) — reflects a broader coalition trade aimed at shoring up haredi support for the government's media reform agenda. As The Zioneer reported earlier this morning, Rabbi Yosef previously called on the party to support the Communications Law to enable the Detentions Law; the specific linkage to the Kashrut Law marks an additional element in the evolving deal.
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