80 km. on foot: Sharren Haskel’s three-day march in protest of haredi draft bill
“I couldn’t just sit there and continue to argue and see they’re not changing their minds,” Haskel told the Post about the marathon discussions on the bill taking place in the Knesset.
After three days on the road and over 80 kilometers on foot, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel (New Hope) spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday about her march this week in protest of the government’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill , which she said endangers Israel’s future.
Haskel embarked on a three-day journey from the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba to Jerusalem in protest of the current outline of the haredi conscription bill .
“I couldn’t just sit there and continue to argue and see they’re not changing their minds,” Haskel told the Post about the marathon discussions on the bill taking place in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee .
That’s where her journey ended after three days on foot and sleeping in tents – she arrived at the Knesset panel debating the bill as the last stop on her march on Tuesday.
Speaking on what prompted her to undertake the march, the deputy foreign minister warned that there are severe issues with the current draft bill’s outline.
