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Monday, January 13, 2025
Haredi faction: Government must act ‘quickly, without political considerations’ to secure hostage deal

Families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip attend a finance committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 13, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
United Torah Judaism’s Agudat Yisrael faction comes out in favor of a potential hostage-ceasefire deal, calling on the government to “act decisively and quickly, without involving political considerations or other interests.”
According to the Ynet news site, the Haredi faction additionally says that a deal is a “moral and national duty.”
“The duty to return the hostages home is not subject to dispute; it is a supreme value that transcends any political dispute. We must act immediately and bring them back without delay,” the faction says.