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UTJ Hasidic faction’s rabbis back dissolution of Knesset
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe spiritual leadership of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism’s Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction decides that it will introduce a bill to dissolve the Knesset after meeting in Jerusalem.
At the end of the meeting, the leadership says they are backing the “immediate” dissolution” of the legislature, according to a statement cited in Hebrew media.
Both UTJ and Shas are threatening to bring down the government over its failure to pass a bill exempting yeshiva students from military service, though UTJ lacks the numbers to do so alone.
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