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"Israel is a country noted for its informalities. No stiff upper lip here. When addressing members of the Knesset one does not hear the title “The Honorable” placed before their names. But the shenanigans of National Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky may compel people to place a title before his name. No, not “The Honorable Yosef Paritzky,” but rather “The Dishonorable Yosef Paritzky.” Mr. Paritzky, a tax attorney, conspired with the aid of a private investigator to frame his colleagues in the Shinui Party – a party that ran on a platform of promoting “clean government.” His real sin – he got caught."
-http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/c/120720041
So much for the "anti-corruption" party...

"Despite staunch opposition by chareidi representatives the Knesset Education and Culture Committee, headed by MK Ilan Shalgi (Shinui), reached a decision Monday to require the Education Ministry to carry out the Shenhar Report, which calls for teaching Judaism in a pluralistic spirit by giving expressing to all "streams" of Judaism...

"Rabbi Shmuel Rotner, representing the organization Manof which also participated in the meeting, said it would be better to entirely forego inviting any rabbis to deliver lectures rather than to invite Reform rabbis as well. "Reform is not a legitimate stream of Judaism but a cult. They do not keep mitzvas and do not represent Judaism in any way. Most of the parents at government schools are traditionalists who follow the true Jewish legacy. Therefore inviting Reform or Conservative rabbis represents an act of coercion against parents by educating their children in a manner inconsistent with their wishes."

-http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/SHM64areform.htm

"In the latest of his inflaming proclamations, Interior Minister Avraham Poraz (Shinui) informed Attorney General Eliakim Rubinstein he supports granting citizenship based solely on the Citizenship Law, a law that allows entry to Israel based on "humanitarian reasons, uniting families, identifying with Zionism or those whose endeavors make a tangible contribution to Israeli society." Poraz told Rubinstein he would like the State to assume this as its official stance in pending High Court appeals filed against the Interior Ministry for its refusal to grant citizenship to goyim who undergo non-Orthodox "conversions," a position that would effectively remove Orthodox conversion as a condition for receiving citizenship.

In his efforts to grab headlines and torment the chareidi, national-religious and traditional sectors, Poraz claims, "The conversion procedure is being taken advantage of for ulterior motives."

-http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/BMD63aporaz.htm

One of Shinui's platforms is induction of the Chareidim into the military, where they are not needed and not wanted. Even Hesder students, who are supposed to want to go to the army, are having problems in such an immoral environment:

"The national-religious movement's "Torah" community is up in arms over the increasing complaints of hesder yeshiva students, who caution that military service has become intolerable due to severe breaches in halocho and tsnius.

"The attempt by the Mizrachi Movement to combine yeshiva studies with military service, encouraging yeshiva students to perceive army service as a Zionist and idealistic duty, has already encountered numerous problems in the past. National-religious soldiers complained about what takes place in the army and questioned the ability of the young religious man to survive and to maintain his beliefs and religious practice in the framework of the IDF, which is built on secular foundations and serves as the melting pot for Israeli society. Recently these problems have become more pronounced."

-http://chareidi.shemayisrael.com/BLAKvidf.htm

They accomplished the dismantling of the religious affairs department:

"Welfare Minister Zevulun Orlev (NRP), who heads the Interministerial Committee for Religious Services, claims the way decisions were made on the matter of dismantling the Religious Affairs Ministry is "material for an investigative committee. In a Knesset Interior Ministry meeting Orlev said, "The decision to dismantle the Ministry of Religious Affairs was political, with the goal the destruction of religious services."

To be continued.