UTJ MK Eichler Blasts Lapid For Proposing To Strip Voting Rights From Non-Enlisted Charedim

United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler sharply criticized Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday after Lapid proposed revoking the voting rights of Charedim who do not serve in the IDF.

Eichler issued a biting response, saying he “welcomes MK Yair Lapid’s ‘democratic’ demand to strip citizens of their right to vote, provided that the law applies to every privileged individual who did not serve in a combat role at the front. Additionally, anyone who has not completed their high school matriculation will not be allowed to serve as Prime Minister.”

Lapid, who never completed high school and served as a reporter for the IDF magazine Bamachane during his mandatory service, has long been a vocal critic of the Charedi draft exemptions.

Speaking to reporters earlier in the day, Lapid declared that if the government’s proposed legislation to regulate Charedi enlistment passes, “then in the next government there will be a simple law: whoever does not come to [military induction] will not come to the polls. Whoever does not enlist, will not vote in the elections.”