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Degel HaTorah, Agudat Yisrael agree to run again in united ultra-Orthodox faction
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Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael reach an agreement to run together again as the ultra-Orthodox political party United Torah Judaism, Hebrew media reports.
UTJ is a combined slate of the Hasidic party Agudat Yisrael and the non-Hasidic Degel HaTorah. The parties have run on a joint list since 1992 barring a period in 2004-2006, when they split over a disagreement about cooperating with the coalition but reunited before the subsequent election.
But the parties had been mulling separate runs this year amid a dispute over an agreement by the Belz Hasidim, part of Agudat Yisrael, to allow the study of some secular subjects in their schools in exchange for increased state funding.
New Degel HaTorah leader MK Moshe Gafni was also reportedly demanding greater representation on the joint slate.
The Times of Israel Community.