Netanyahu rejects reports that religious party demands no electricity on Shabbat

Incoming PM maintains religious status quo will continue and also rejects report of more separate beaches

Netanyahu: There will be electricity on Shabbat, religious status quo will continue (Times of Israel)
After bombshell claims of coalition demands from ultra-Orthodox party, presumptive incoming PM also nixes more separate beaches; Lapid pans incoming ‘radical’ government

UTJ demands Israel stops generating electricity on Shabbat in coalition deal (Jerusalem Post)
The Likud denied the report, stating that Israel's status quo on religion and state matters will remain unchanged.

What’s Really Behind the Extreme ultra-Orthodox Demands By Anshel Pfeffer (Haaretz)
The new Israeli government will be beholden to the desire of the rabbis to isolate their followers from the outside world, whether they want it or not

UTJ's demands will have opposite effect from what it intends (Jerusalem Post)
UTJ demanded that Israel not generate electricity on Shabbat and increase the number of segregated beaches among other religious demands

Why Is Naftali Bennett Suing This Rabbi for Defamation? (Haaretz)
Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi, who is well known for his incendiary and often bizarre rhetoric, previously said that Bennett was the 'devil' and that the only way to silence him would be to 'grab a spear and impale him'

Photo: United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)