Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, tells the ultra-Orthodox news outlet Kikar Hashabbat that no government members will resign at the end of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
“I don’t see anybody resigning, who is it bad for? There are 64 [government] members, there are government ministries, everything is working and there is an organized budget,” Goldknopf says.
“What, the day after a war the government has to fall?” he asks. “What does the government have to do with the war?”
The housing minister evades two questions on the matter of responsibility for the October 7 terror onslaught carried out by Hamas in southern Israel, saying the matter will be investigated by a committee “that will finish its work in 2028, maybe 2027.”
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