Ofer Winter rejects Goldknopf's demand for universal yeshiva student IDF draft exemption
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Source: The Jerusalem Post
Published: 2026-09-08 08:34 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Politics, Education, Defence, Middle East, Military & Defence, Elections, War & Conflict
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Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, the chairman of the People of Israel party, fired back at Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of United Torah Judaism's haredi (ultra-Orthodox) faction Agudat Yisrael, on Monday after he stated that UTJ would demand a full military draft exemption for any student of a yeshiva.
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