Netanyahu opposes Shas’ very reasonable coalition demands:
- increasing the budget for yeshivas (currently religious Jewish children receive less than half the per-capita financing allocated to their atheist compatriots).
- allowing construction in the settlements to accommodate the growing haredi population. Also, state subsidies for haredi construction. And why is investing in useless railroads, pushed for by the Bank of Israel, any better as an anti-crisis measure than building houses?
- portfolio of deputy Education Minister in charge of religious education (it is only right for a religious party to control religious education).
