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Shas MK says party did not demand Likud remove Edelstein from Knesset committee
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Shas MK Yinon Azoulay speaks during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on February 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
Shas MK Yinon Azoulay says the party did not demand that Likud replace MK Yuli Edelstein as head of the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee over his refusal to advance a bill enshrining sweeping military service exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox.
Speaking to the Knesset Channel, Azoulay is asked about Likud plans to fire Edelstein, who has been holding up a draft exemption bill by insisting on harsh sanctions against draft dodgers.
“We did not demand this, we did not receive this,” Azoulay says, suggesting the interviewer ask Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about why Edelstein was being replaced.
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