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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Yitzhak Goldknopf

Left: Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the United Torah Judaism party, June 26, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
September 12, 2024, 3:31 pm
Haredi leader said to tell PM he’d quit coalition over army draft issue if not for war
Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf complained to Netanyahu over government’s failure to solve matter, TV news reports
By ToI Staff
Left: Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the United Torah Judaism party, June 26, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
September 12, 2024, 1:10 am
Netanyahu said to promise Haredi party leader that he’ll expedite draft exemption law
PM works to stave off threat to coalition before eventual vote on next state budget; police called after ultra-Orthodox extremists storm IDF recruitment conference in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman (L) at the Israeli Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, September 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 5, 2024, 6:04 pm
Lapid alleges comptroller’s Oct. 7 probe meant to help Netanyahu avoid state inquest
‘An attack on the institution of the state comptroller is dangerous,’ Englman says after opposition chief accuses him of helping PM ‘evade his duty to establish a state commission’
By Sam Sokol and Jeremy Sharon
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives at a Jerusalem Day conference at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 11, 2024, 12:35 pm
AG orders daycare funding cut for ultra-Orthodox students who defy draft orders
In letter to labor minister, Baharav-Miara says no justification to subsidize those who don’t serve; Shas party calls move a ‘mark of Cain’ on legal system
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from a video on social media showing an attack on two senior IDF officers by Haredi rioters in Bnei Brak, July 15, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 16, 2024, 3:43 pm
Yelling ‘murderers,’ ultra-Orthodox mob attacks 2 senior IDF officers in Bnei Brak
Head of Training Command and head of Personnel Management Division waylaid by dozens who assault their vehicle following meeting with rabbi on drafting Haredi men
By ToI Staff
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox -- photographed here through a metal fence -- attend a rally against the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students to the military, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 1:17 am
Haredi minister’s car attacked as violence erupts at anti-draft protest in Jerusalem
5 arrested during clashes with police, officer hospitalized; stones hurled at vehicles carrying United Torah Judaism party head Yitzhak Goldknopf and his predecessor Yaakov Litzman
By ToI Staff
Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against the military draft, in the central city of Bnei Brak, on June 20, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)
June 26, 2024, 4:24 pm
Evading national service in the Jewish state is the opposite of authentic Judaism
Belatedly outlawed by the High Court, the norm under which the Haredi community is excluded from its responsibilities is an indefensible aberration and a betrayal of Jewish values
By David Horovitz
United Torah Judaism leader Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 5:00 am
Haredi leader Goldknopf on army draft: ‘You don’t want us and you don’t need us’
At event marking Bnei Brak centenery, UTJ chief wonders why ultra-Orthodox parties’ electoral achievements do not enable them to strike deals to avoid enlistment for their community
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf meets with relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, June 3, 2024. (UTJ Spokesperson/X)
June 4, 2024, 1:35 pm
Both ultra-Orthodox parties back Gaza hostage deal, following far-right opposition
UTJ, Shas respond to hostage families’ calls to free their loved ones: Goldknopf: Party will back any deal that releases captives; Ben-Tzur: We sanctify life over victory
By ToI Staff
Israelis protest against UNRWA outside its offices in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
May 30, 2024, 5:28 am
Israel Land Authority tells UNRWA to evacuate Jerusalem premises for breaching lease
Government body sends letter to UN agency for Palestinian refugees saying it must also pay over NIS 27 million for allegedly operating on state land without consent
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism leader Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
March 7, 2024, 6:28 am
Ultra-Orthodox parties: We’ll learn lessons of inquiry into deadly 2021 Meron crush
Shas minister pans PM’s Likud party for painting commission’s work as politically motivated, demands retraction; Likud minister Barkat urges Netanyahu to take responsibility
By ToI Staff
Protesters demanding ultra-Orthodox military conscription demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 26, 2024, 4:30 pm
High Court orders the government to explain why its refusal to draft Haredim is legal
Petitioners claim a 2023 resolution enabling state to temporarily avoid drafting ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students is illegal. State has till March 24 to respond to court
By Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 11, 2024, 8:47 am
Ultra-Orthodox party pans Netanyahu for issuing credit rating statement on Shabbat
Housing minister Goldknopf of United Torah Judaism calls PM’s response ‘inappropriate’; Finance Committee chair says it was ‘totally unnecessary’ and a colleague laments ‘disgrace’
By ToI Staff
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf (right) arrives at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 4, 2023, 9:37 am
Haredi minister warns he’ll quit if bill for draft exemption delayed
UTJ leader Yitzhak Goldknopf says law must advance when Knesset reconvenes for winter session later this month, stresses it’s his party’s only demand
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 27, 2023, 10:04 pm
Haredi minister presses government to keep its word on army draft exemptions
Goldknopf leaves note on cabinet secretary’s cabinet papers reminding him of promise to work on legislation in coming Knesset winter session
By ToI Staff
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