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Haredi faction leader threatens to oppose budget if enlistment law not passed first
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United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on December 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
MK Moshe Gafni, who heads United Torah Judaism’s Degel HaTorah faction, threatens to oppose the proposed state budget if legislation isn’t first passed to regulate ultra-Orthodox enlistment and exemptions to mandatory military service.
“Firs there should be a law,” Gafni tells the Kikar Hashabbat news site.
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