Posted on 02/10/22
| News Source: Arutz-7
Deputy Knesset Speaker Eitan Ginzburg (Blue and White) spoke to Kikar Hashabbat about the incitement against the haredi community, emphasizing that they "are not responsible for the cost of living."
The full interview will be published Thursday evening, in Sogrim Shavua.
In it, Ginzburg said, "I am not blaming any sector, and certainly not with sweeping generalizations. There is importance in that in the haredi sector, that anyone who is not learning should go out and work. That seems to me to be important, and even a mitzvah (Torah commandment). The Draft Law which we passed allows haredim to go out to work from age 21 instead of 24, and that is part of our worldview."
However, he emphasized, "It's important that in the haredi sector, anyone who is not learning should go out to work."
When asked specifically by Kikar Hashabbat whether he would condemn Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman's (Yisrael Beytenu) statements blaming the haredim for the rise in the cost of living, Ginzburg said, "I do not blame haredi society in general. It is not responsible for the cost of living. The fact that some in haredi society which could go out to work, that might help the cost of living, but that is not the cause of the high cost of living. In the Arab sector there is the same thing. Absolutely."