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Coalition negotiations

"I hope such a government won't be formed"

Arye Erlich attacks right-wing bloc for threatening chareidim over coalition talks with the left, reminding them Netanyahu 'threw the chareidim to the dogs' in 2013

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Haredi journalist Arye Erlich addressed the possibility of a left-wing government with the chareidi parties this morning (Monday), in exchange for a draft law, and said: "I very much hope a government with the left won't be formed, because that's a terrible idea in my view, but I have a request for our brothers in the right-wing camp: don't threaten us."

"Netanyahu threw the chareidim to the dogs in 2013 and would do it again now if it got him a government. It wasn't pleasant but we didn't threaten divorce and we understood that politics is a tough card game," he said.

Erlich's remarks came at the height of negotiations between Avigdor Liberman and the chareidi parties over forming a government, in exchange for the 2018 draft law, a law far softer than the draft law proposed by Boaz Bismuth.

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