The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party quit both the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition on Monday evening as part of an ongoing struggle over the conscription of yeshiva students.
The party’s Degel Hatorah faction was the first to announce its withdrawal, with a spokesman for the faction’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Dov Lando, declaring in a statement that “in accordance with [the rabbi’s] instructions, Degel Hatorah Knesset members will leave the government and coalition today.”
Accusing the government of seeking “to increase the hardship of the lives of Torah students” and repeatedly “failing to fulfill their obligations to regulate the legal status of the dear yeshiva students,” Lando stated in an accompanying letter that his view was that “participation in the government and the coalition should be immediately terminated,
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