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UTJ chair Goldknopf says Haredi party’s rabbis will examine draft-exemption bill
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Yitzhak Goldknopf, the chairman of the United Torah Judaism party and its Hasidic Augudat Yisrael faction, says that his party’s rabbinic leadership will examine Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth’s new draft of a bill regulating Haredi conscription before deciding on whether or not to support it.
“The position of the Council of Torah Sages, as conveyed to us, is that we must advance a framework that will preserve the world of Torah, without any sanctions against Torah students,” he says.
“The draft proposal presented this evening will be brought before our revered Torah sages, may they live long, for their decision, and we will act solely according to their guidance.”
UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction has previously expressed support for the proposal.
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