Jewish Home minister replaced due to illness

MK Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
MK Uri Orbach of the Jewish Home party (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Uri Orbach, a 54-year-old Jewish Home MK who is No. 6 on the right-wing party’s list in the upcoming elections, remains hospitalized in serious condition with a blood disease.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will declare him temporarily relieved of his post as pensioners’ affairs minister, which will be assumed by party leader Naftali Bennett.

 

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