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Housing Ministry set to go to Haim Katz as caretaker after Goldknopf exit
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The government is scheduled to officially announce former housing minister Yitzchak Goldknopf’s exit from the government and his temporary replacement by Tourism Minister Haim Katz this afternoon in the Knesset.
According to Monday’s Knesset agenda, Katz will replace Goldknopf as housing minister for an interim period of three months.
Goldknopf, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Thursday afternoon as part of an ongoing fight over the military conscription of yeshiva students. His resignation went into effect on Sunday.
Earlier this year, Katz temporarily took on the duties of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, and Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf when their far-right Otzma Yehudit party temporarily left the government.
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