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Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft-exemption law not passed
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-housing minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Members of the coalition’s Agudath Yisrael faction send a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning they will vote against the state budget if the government does not pass legislation formalizing sweeping exemptions to mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.
The letter is signed by the faction’s leader, Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, along with MKs Ya’akov Tessler and Moshe Roth.
Agudath Yisrael is a Hasidic faction within the United Torah Judaism party, which also includes the non-Hasidic Degel HaTorah.
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