A sharp confrontation unfolded on the All-in podcast hosted by Nadav Peri, as former Tel Aviv deputy mayor Asaf Zamir and religious-Zionist journalist Amichai Attali argued over the makeup of Israel's next coalition and the comparison between political partnership with Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas and partnership with the chareidi parties.
Zamir opened the exchange by praising Abbas for remaining in the Knesset plenum during a recent session, calling it a significant step forward. He then turned his criticism on MK Yaakov Asher of United Torah Judaism, who stood beside him but did not sing the national anthem. According to Zamir, there is an unbridgeable gap between the treatment directed at Arab representatives and the treatment afforded to the chareidi factions.
Zamir attacks: "They get nothing - and he's in government his whole life"
During the debate, Zamir argued that while Arab parties face harsh accusations and political boycotts, the chareidi parties enjoy permanent status in government and budgets, despite their positions on core issues.
"What's the gap between someone you call a nochvot, and the other one, they get nothing, and he gets all of this, he's in government his whole life," Zamir said in the studio. He went on to point to the contentious issues with the chareidi public: "His education system is private and independent, he doesn't go to the army, he has demands. He says: we will never go to the army, we will never impose core studies on our curriculum, and we are not willing under any circumstances and I will not sing 'Hatikvah.' I haven't heard you once in two years express any difficulty with this partnership."
