The Knesset House Committee voted Monday to remove MK Yuli Edelstein as chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, replacing him with MK Boaz Bismuth, after Edelstein resisted advancing legislation to exempt most ultra-Orthodox men from military service.
The Knesset House Committee voted Monday to remove MK Yuli Edelstein as chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, replacing him with MK Boaz Bismuth, after Edelstein resisted advancing legislation to exempt most ultra-Orthodox men from military service.
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