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Welfare Minister Haim Katz to resign tomorrow — report

15 August 2019, 9:15 pm
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Welfare Minister Haim Katz will resign tomorrow after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit recommended graft charges against him, the Ynet website reports, without citing a source.

Welfare Minister Haim Katz attends a Finance Committee meeting discussing raising the age of retirement for women at the Knesset on November 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The move comes after members of his party, the ruling Likud, urged him not to resign.

Katz will remain Knesset member and run for the next parliament, and is reportedly weighing asking MKs to grant him immunity.

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