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Lapid slams coalition for promoting ultra-Orthodox draft exemption law while soldiers being held hostage
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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid slams the government for “promoting an evasion law” while IDF servicewomen tasked with monitoring the Gaza border are still being held hostage in the Gaza Strip.
“With one hand [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu sends soldiers who have to fight and survive on the battlefield for the defense of the homeland, with the other hand he bribes his coalition partners, in order to survive politically,” he tells reporters ahead of his Yesh Atid party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset.
“There has never been [and] never will be such a disgrace in the history of Israel. Such blatant discrimination between blood and blood. This disgrace must be stopped. We will fight this disgraceful law in the name of the fighters, in the name of the reservists, in the name of the wounded and dead, in the name of those who love this country,” he states.
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