Otzma Yehudit Publishes List of Coalition Agreements

By Hamodia Staff

YERUSHALAYIM — Following last-minute negotiations Wednesday night that enabled Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu to declare he had formed a government, the Otzma Yehudit party published on Thursday a list of items in its coalition agreement with Likud, Arutz Sheva reported.

Among the achievements claimed by party chairman Itamar Ben Gvir:

An agreement to amend the grandfather clause in the Law of Return which currently grants citizenship benefits to persons claiming one Jewish grandparent, in order to reduce the number of non-Jews coming into Israel.

The death penalty for terrorists, to be passed before the 2023 budget. While technically the law allows for the death penalty, it has only been applied twice since the founding of the state. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman was executed in 1962; John Demjanjuk was also sentenced to death for war crimes in the Holocaust, but the sentence was overturned by the Israeli High Court.

The repeal of the law banning candidates for Knesset accused of inciting racism (expected to allow the candidacies of certain far-right figures) and the introduction of legislation defining incitement against the chareidi population as racism. Ben Gvir noted that to date, Clause 7A, as it is known, has only been used against Jews and that not a single non-Jewish inciter or racist has been barred from running for a Knesset seat under its provisions.

To fight crime in the Arab sector, a special unit will be established in the Shin Bet to address the problem; a ban on the waving or display of PLO flags in institutions supported by the state or local authorities.

To combat crime in the agricultural sector, a minimum sentence of three years in prison for agricultural crime, and a minimum sentence of three years in prison for extorting protection money, which has become a scourge across the country.

A Chief Rabbi shall be appointed from the religious Zionist sector, and a law to be enacted to commemorate the Torah scholarship and national contributions of former Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliyahu, and a law to commemorate the victims of the 1929 Chevron Massacre.

Otzma Yehudit also demanded and received an immunity law for IDF soldiers and members of the security forces.