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Monday, October 28, 2024
Liberman: Government putting burden on reservists while working to pass Haredi ‘evasion law’
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"
Citing the “high price” that Israeli soldiers have been paying in the war against Hamas and Hezbollah, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman tells lawmakers at his party’s faction meeting that the government is placing an increasing burden on those already serving while working to pass an “evasion law” to exempt ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service.
“We demand to have one clear law: one nation, one draft,” he states, noting the IDF’s ongoing shortage of troops.
“This is the worst government in the history of Israel,” he adds.
Turning to a bill sponsored by Yisrael Beytenu MK Yulia Malinovsky that would ban state authorities from having any contact with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Liberman calls on lawmakers to resist international pressure and support the bill.
Earlier today, Malinovsky wrote to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana demanding that he resist such pressure and “sever all ties with the agency that conspired with the terrorist organization Hamas, [which] murdered, raped and kidnapped our citizens.”
“It is the moral duty of the Knesset of Israel to disavow and end UNRA’s activities in the region in memory of the victims of the massacre and their families,” she stated.
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