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UTJ’s Goldknopf agrees to back off demand to serve in security cabinet
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCarrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
UTJ MK Yitzhak Goldknopf at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
United Torah Judaism party chief Yitzhak Goldknopf withdraws his demand for a seat on the security cabinet, days after the request kicked off a political firestorm.
A spokesman for Goldknopf confirms that he has rescinded the request.
Goldknopf leads the Agudat Yisrael faction within UTJ. Its other constituent party, Degel HaTorah, threatened to reopen coalition agreements if Goldknopf did not walk back the demand.
Many UTJ representatives, including Goldknopf, did not serve in the military, and are fighting to expand ultra-Orthodox exemptions from IDF service.
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