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00:00:21the round of consultations with representatives of the parties elected
00:00:24to the Knesset renewed today in preparation for the task of forming
00:00:27the government. This is today.
00:00:33United Torah Judaism arrived there a short
00:00:34while ago.
00:00:37Yes, hello Ronnie, and just now representatives of United Torah Judaism are conversing
00:00:41with the President of the State. MK
00:00:44Goldknopf is speaking with Herzog now, and before that we heard
00:00:47MK Pindrus speaking with the President and telling him that any
00:00:51government that is formed will need to prioritize
00:00:54and put at the top of its agenda the regulation of
00:00:57the status of Torah students. Pindrus says this is not
00:01:01possible, this situation, this reality in which Torah students are persecuted.
00:01:05Herzog replies and says: Currently there is no legal arrangement that allows
00:01:08a total exemption from conscription for an entire society, and Herzog adds
00:01:12that because of the war there are growing needs
00:01:15for resources and manpower.
00:01:18We need to say, Ronnie, that the members of the United Torah Judaism
00:01:21delegation arrived here, but there is one representative who did not arrive, and that is MK
00:01:25Porush, and this is because Porush, unlike
00:01:28the other recommenders, wishes not to abstain but
00:01:32to support Netanyahu. He did not come here for this consultation at the President's
00:01:35Residence. We actually need to hear the official position of United Torah Judaism
00:01:39to abstain from recommending any candidate to form a government.
00:01:42And we will remind you, Ronnie, that in fact these recommendations by
00:01:46the members of United Torah Judaism opened the round today. We already saw yesterday
00:01:50the members of Religious Zionism and Shas and Otzma
00:01:53and Yisrael Beiteinu arriving here at the President's Residence to submit
00:01:56their candidate to form the government.
00:02:00Who will receive the mandate today? After
00:02:02the members of United Torah Judaism, we are expected to see here Otzma
00:02:06Yehudit, also the members of the Arab parties Ra'am and Hadash-Ta'al,
00:02:10also the Democrats and later today also Together
00:02:13Right, and finally the party that received the most mandates according to the true results,
00:02:17the Likud. At the end of this round, Ronnie, the President
00:02:20of the State will have to decide whom he will first entrust with the task of forming
00:02:23the government, when
00:02:27Herzog is actually supposed to be appointed by.
00:02:30The question is not who has the most recommenders, but who has the best
00:02:33chance of forming a government. He has, according to the law,
00:02:36a week to decide whom he will give this mandate
00:02:40to form the government, and we must say, Ronnie, that we already heard the President say yesterday
00:02:43here at the President's Residence, I ask everyone to put all boycotts aside,
00:02:47all that they said, all those they said they would not be interested in forming a government with,
00:02:51in order to still bring about the formation of a stable government
00:02:54in Israel as soon as possible,
00:03:04said on Kan Reshet B that his party will recommend to President Herzog
00:03:08former Chief of Staff Eisenkot to form the government. Yaara Shapira, good morning, you
00:03:11reported yesterday that the Joint List is also expected to recommend Eisenkot under
00:03:15certain conditions. Yes, Ronnie, they haven't officially announced it yet, but
00:03:19Ra'am has already announced that it will recommend Gadi Eisenkot and do it for free without
00:03:22preconditions. In contrast, the Joint List will
00:03:26prepare a list of demands in return for supporting moves
00:03:30in the Knesset, including the appointment of the Speaker of the Knesset, and yesterday there was already
00:03:34a consultation on this matter with the committee of heads of Arab authorities, where among
00:03:37other things, one of the demands raised there is to receive the
00:03:41chairmanship of one of the central committees in the Knesset, either
00:03:44Finance or Constitution or Education, in addition
00:03:48to the other demands in the civilian spheres
00:03:51that the Joint List raises from time to time. If this
00:03:55is indeed a demand in return for the appointment of the Speaker of the Knesset,
00:03:58it will be a decision from.
00:04:02for the change bloc to accept. And now for the weather forecast immediately after the forecast is broadcast courtesy of
00:04:14Bereshit Protected Housing in the Jerusalem mountains, and now
00:04:17in the salon without a deposit.
00:04:30The forecast is broadcast courtesy of
00:04:33Bereshit Protected Housing in the Jerusalem mountains, and now
00:04:37in the path without a deposit.
00:04:40That's all for our news update for this hour. Immediately, Chen Lieberman and Gili
00:04:43Cohen on Kan News on Reshet B.
00:05:07Residence. Currently, we are observing the first
00:05:11recommenders who arrived at the President's Residence. The United Torah Judaism faction, who a
00:05:15short while ago told President Herzog: We have decided not
00:05:18to recommend any Knesset member to form the government. We saw here
00:05:22Knesset member Pindrus say that the rabbis instructed us not
00:05:26to recommend anyone, and you know, we've been seeing
00:05:29President Herzog since yesterday conversing with
00:05:32the representatives of the factions, and Herzog is talking here with the representatives of
00:05:36United Torah Judaism and says, "I greatly appreciate the Haredi public and Torah
00:05:39study, but we are dealing with the question of whether it is possible to maintain
00:05:43a society of learners in the current reality, a reality of war." And then Knesset member
00:05:47Pindrus tells Herzog, "We
00:05:49expect that any government that is formed will prioritize the issue
00:05:53of regulating the status of Torah students,
00:05:56because such a situation of persecution of Torah students is an impossible thing."