New York is 'sublime spiritual experience': Haredi politician urges Netanyahu to allow draft dodgers to leave country

 https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj4d11l9fll

Following a ynet report that the government will allocate millions of shekels to fund flights for worshipers traveling to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, and with police and the IDF preparing to intercept thousands of draft evaders who may attempt to fly to the annual pilgrimage, United Torah Judaism lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to broaden the travel framework.

Goldknopf asked Netanyahu to “expand the outline to also include the thousands of Chabad Hasidim who travel each year during the holidays to be in the presence of their spiritual leader” — referring both to pilgrimages to Chabad headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in New York and to other Hasidic sects such as Skver, Bobov and Vizhnitz-Monsey that hold large gatherings abroad.