Absorption Minister Sopha Landwer told Israeli pubic radio on Thursday morning, that "the haredi-religious factions are trying every way to blackmail the state."
Responding to the haredi parties' insistence on immediately passing their draft law, even before the approval of the state budget, she continued, "This is not a political game - the fate of the state before the fate of the government, and we will not compromise on it. "Right now we are waiting for the results of the committee set up by Minister Avigdor Liberman to decide on our move." She was referring to her Yisrael Beytenu party, headed by Liberman.