Simcha Rothman
@rothmar · Israeli government & coalition
Knesset profile: Simcha Rothman →
Simcha Rothman is a Religious Zionism MK and chair of the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, where he was a principal architect of the judicial reform.
The days when panic channels can spread lies without a response are over. Attention viewers @baruchikra @newsisrael13 @RavivDrucker TL;DR: when Baruchi Kara is sitting with a friend on the phone and I’m working from memory, you’re better off trusting me. We’re putting an end to the blood libel about Jewish terrorism!
Translated from HebrewNot a little confused, very confused. The main reason powers (including the power to fire an official) should be in the hands of elected representatives is that elected representatives are accountable to the public. What is happening now is that the elected representative (Katz) wants to carry out an action that the public believes is wrong (the firing of Yehuda Eliyahu) and will pay a public price for it. (Criticism, demonstrations, voting) The elected representative will reconsider his position, or the public will reconsider its position and will not elect the same party or the same person. Democracy! Real democracy, not as a slogan of violent fascists in the streets who threaten to destroy the state and the army if they do not do what they say, but simply democracy. Government of the people, by the people, for the people. By contrast, a state in which robed dictators from the Bagatz party appoint or fire people, and the public has no say in the matter, is not a democracy. It is not that complicated, and there is no need to be confused. Glad to help.
Translated from HebrewSomeone should keep Yair away from the keyboard, so that the public does not, heaven forbid, remember that during the tenure of his government and Bennett's, inflation was the highest since 2002! This forced the Governor of the Bank of Israel to raise the Bank of Israel interest rate to a peak of 4.75 percent, and increased the burden of mortgages on all of us. And the year with the lowest inflation since then (and in fact since the coronavirus) is of course 2026. The government's fiscal responsibility led to a series of interest-rate cuts that leave most of us with more money in our pockets. Strong shekel, strong economy, responsible management. Yair, leave these issues to those who understand. @bezalelsm Despite all your slanders, he was the finance minister who managed Israel's economy during the most challenging time imaginable, and with great success.
Translated from HebrewToday at the Election Committee I spoke about Solberg's very, very strange decision to stop the use of Elector software immediately, claiming that it constitutes an invasion of privacy. It turns out that conducting an illegal search of a phone is less harmful to privacy than using the practice that has been customary for years of reporting who voted and who has not yet. That's what happens when there are no rules.
Translated from HebrewFor anyone who wants a political and economic right, there is only one option in the upcoming elections. Yes, Smotrich. @zionutdatit @bezalelsm
Translated from HebrewPeople are pointing out to me here, sotto voce, that it is not nice to quote @avishaigrinzaig and @Ahikam20 without tagging them. Feel free to help all the reality deniers understand that Ra’am, Hamas’s sister movement, are full-fledged supporters of terrorism, and that the whitewashing campaign @YSegalovitz is organizing for them here is nothing short of shameful. By the way, @chooselifeforum @herzelhajaj and @meravhgag also hold golden shares in exposing information about Ra’am and the affiliated associations.
Translated from HebrewToday it is already clear to everyone. This has nothing to do with human rights. This has nothing to do with protecting minorities. It also has nothing to do with protecting democracy. These are dictators who do not care about the law. The next government and Knesset will appoint most of the Supreme Court justices. It is in your hands to decide whether Isaac Amit will replicate himself and establish the rule of his and Daphne Barak-Erez’s royal family, or whether the national camp will appoint judges who believe in a Jewish and democratic state in which the people are sovereign.
Translated from HebrewI am very much in favor of enshrining in a Basic Law the ideas held by the author of the Declaration of Independence—Ben-Gurion. “Would our people come to terms with a system of life in which judges—and all due respect to judges—could cancel laws the people want? Only the people determine the constitution; that means: a constitution is what the people want and decide after free discussion and voting.” Ben-Gurion, who signed the Declaration of Independence, would have signed with both hands onto the judicial plan of Religious Zionism!
Translated from HebrewProbably Bennett forgot again to coordinate the messaging with his partner... @naftalibennett @mnsorabbas The Declaration of Independence: for and against, discuss
Translated from Hebrew"And many peoples shall go and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For from Zion shall go forth Torah, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:3) The Jewish people, as the Declaration of Independence begins, created national and universal cultural assets in the Land of Israel and bequeathed to the entire world the eternal Book of Books. Near Sukkot, the holiday that historically and spiritually emphasizes the mission of the people of Israel to the nations of the world, the National Conservatism Conference will take place in Jerusalem, and there will be an important opportunity to meet conservative right-wing thinkers and political activists from many countries. I will also be there, meet old friends, get to know new ones, and above all learn together how a culture whose roots are deeply planted in the eternal Book of Books confronts the challenges of tomorrow."
Translated from HebrewTogether we will win! @moshefeiglin, welcome! I salute @bezalelsm, who demonstrated national responsibility and responsibility for the future of the national camp.
Translated from HebrewAmong the High Court of Justice justices, there is no one for whom there is a basis to assume that the law and the truth are foremost in his thoughts and that the fear of writing lies and slanders is expected to deeply affect his writing. * * Unlike Justice Kasher, I do not have enough information to say that about all the High Court of Justice justices. But as for Yechiel Kasher, that is certainly true. As for the rest: silence is slime.
Translated from HebrewAs usual, Kalman unmasks Judge Kasher
Translated from HebrewEight years ago today. The Supreme Court ruling (Fogelman, Amit, and Grosskopf) that overturned the cabinet’s decision to prevent relatives of Hamas members from receiving medical treatment in Israel. A decision intended to exert pressure on Hamas to bring back the captives and missing persons. There is no doubt, Amit simply must be the one to appoint the commission of inquiry that will explain to us how we failed to deal with Hamas properly! Maybe he should appoint Fogelman...
Translated from HebrewThe fact that they are discussing her retirement terms and not the amounts in the prison canteen is a disgrace to the judicial system of the State of Israel, courtesy of Yitzhak Amit and Gali Baharav-Miara. During the days of the reform, the military advocate general appeared before the Constitution Committee to explain to me that amending the reasonableness doctrine could harm Israel’s legal standing in the world. Throughout her career she received a salary, according to her claim, to preserve Israel’s international standing, and then threw the Force 100 fighters and the State of Israel under the wheels of the bus. Why discuss her retirement terms? She should return, retroactively, all the salaries she received.
Translated from HebrewThat is what the elections are about! The State of Israel will be a Jewish and democratic state, not a state of all its citizens under the rule of the Bagatz party. It depends on you.
Translated from HebrewSince Gilad didn't answer, I'm open to suggestions. How will a government with Mansour Abbas fight Hamas? I remind you that Mansour Abbas refused to say to @perez_esty that Hamas is a terrorist organization that must be eliminated.
Translated from Hebrew@KarivGilad reveals the truth. The “change bloc” is fully coordinated, including Ra'am and Mansour Abbas, with the aim of toppling the rule of the right. Only one thing is unclear. How are they trying to sell the Israeli public on a government with Hamas's sister movement fighting in Gaza? Watch a short clip; a link to the full clip follows below.
Translated from HebrewTell me more about the conservative judges Ayelet Shaked appointed
Translated from HebrewIf you wondered who Gali Baharav-Miara is fighting for. In this Knesset, I managed through many efforts to significantly increase the number of investigations and indictments for incitement to terrorism. Dozens of oversight and legislative sessions to harness the system for something that should have been self-evident. Judicial system reform must continue in the next Knesset, and the legislation that takes control of investigations into incitement to terrorism away from the prosecution must pass.
Translated from HebrewThe High Court continues its war against democracy. The decision on closing Army Radio contains a lot of verbiage intended to give a political decision a professional appearance. The army should not engage in politics, and a military radio station should not exist, whether it expresses political positions in favor of the government or against it. And now the High Court suddenly rediscovers the magical legal ground of "extraneous considerations." The "change government" could appoint a failed chief of staff two minutes before an election. That was reasonable, and there were no extraneous considerations there. The same goes for the decision not to bring the agreement with Hezbollah before the Knesset—again, it was both reasonable, and it is impossible to infer Yair Lapid’s considerations from his political statements. But closing a military radio station because it is not appropriate for the army to engage in politics, during the government’s term and with an advisory committee, is an extraneous consideration. The policy of elected officials has become an extraneous consideration. And strangest of all is the judges’ digging into the ministers’ statements. If the High Court justices had applied this standard to Gali Baharav-Miara or Gil Limon, not to mention Yitzhak Amit or Khaled Kabub, they would have had to categorically disqualify all the decisions made by them against the government’s position. The answer must be given at the ballot box. The next government will appoint new judges who understand that in a democracy there is no military radio station and that in a democracy the people are sovereign, even when they choose a right-wing government.
Translated from HebrewIf only there were some legal standard behind the opinion pieces that Gali Baharav-Miara sends to the High Court in her own name... In any case, this is the end. Thanks to the Attorney General Splitting Law (Part A) that I passed, the next government will no longer have to deal with an adviser who represents herself and silences the elected government. The attorney general will be: *an adviser* - and not a decision-maker; *legal* - who acts according to the law and not according to his political opinion. *To the government* - represents the elected government and not himself. With God's help, I will also continue in the next Knesset to reform the judicial system, responsibly.
Translated from HebrewDear Likud members, choose correctly today and bring the national camp the best possible team. I find it difficult to imagine the next Knesset and government without Amir Ohana and without Amichai Chikli. Because of their ideological commitment and support all along the way for reforming the judicial system, a free market, and the values of the right. Give them the power to continue. @AmirOhana @AmichaiChikli P.S. The picture was deliberately chosen from a smear piece by The Seventh Eye from the early days of the Knesset. They complained that we had “dared” to promote the ideology of the conservative right through the Shibolet Library. This too, in my view, is evidence of Amir’s and Amichai’s profound understanding that change comes from accumulating knowledge, from understanding and depth, and not from populist slogans.
Translated from HebrewIn the DIPI law that I advanced in my committee, we relied on a professional report by an independent committee established at the Justice Ministry. Surely it will not surprise you to learn that the Attorney General’s representative was a minority opinion on the committee and opposed every change. Now all that remains is to find out whether the High Court justices are also trampling the professional majority on the committee in their uncompromising struggle on behalf of the deep state.
Translated from HebrewAfter a year of not serving in the reserves, no one will be excited about you anymore when you return home. Up to 30 days of reserve duty a year starting in 2027 - the “Reservists Home” plan of the @zionutdatit party will expand and streamline the existing system, integrate the Haredi public, and enshrine a Basic Law for Those Who Serve. We’re bringing the reservists home. Watch >>>
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