{"id":297145,"date":"2026-02-18T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297145\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:36:11","slug":"haredi-mk-blasts-selective-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297145\/","title":{"rendered":"Haredi MK blasts &#8216;selective criticism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">A heated confrontation occurred Tuesday during a Knesset committee discussion on the salaries of judges and senior public officials.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">MK Meir Porush (United Torah Judaism) attacked the judiciary in light of reports that judges had received salaries from budgets transferred to the courts&#8217; administration without approval from the Knesset Finance Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Pointed out what he called the &#8220;two-faced&#8221; nature of the Supreme Court, Porush slammed, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/420891\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Funds that were transferred similarly<\/a> for haredi education were blocked by the Supreme Court judges, who deemed the move illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">&#8220;Did the judges return the funds to the State treasury following their own claims?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">During the discussion, another uproar broke out after Committee Chairman MK Ofir Katz refused to allow a Justice Ministry representative to speak, claiming she had not spoken respectfully in a previous discussion on the topic.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Following his refusal to let her speak, representatives from the legal counsel left the room in anger.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Opposition members protested the decision, but Porush responded sharply: &#8220;In discussions on the status of yeshiva students in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, representatives from the Defense Ministry&#8217;s legal counsel were banned from participating, by decision of the Attorney General. There, we did not hear you shouting about silencing voices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heated confrontation occurred Tuesday during a Knesset committee discussion on the salaries of judges and senior public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,110019,150488,131497,43,4320],"class_list":["post-297145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-judges","tag-knesset-committee","tag-meir-porush","tag-news","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}