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Litzman resigns as Housing Minister in protest at holiday lockdown

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Published: 14 September 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Accuses government of deliberately picking Rosh Hashanah as starting date; former health minister still faces probe over his intervention in Leifer case to save her from extradition

Housing Minister Litzman resigns in protest of looming holiday lockdown (Times of Israel)
Ultra-Orthodox former health minister accuses government of failing to act earlier and deliberately picking Rosh Hashanah as the start date of closure

Report: Impending indictment, not holiday lockdown, prompted Litzman’s quitting (Times of Israel)
Sources in United Torah Judaism tell Army Radio the reason party leader Yaakov Litzman resigned from the cabinet earlier today was an impending indictment against him, and not the government’s coronavirus policy.

Litzman: The first domino? (Jerusalem Post)
ANALYSIS: Litzman is assumed to have decided to fall on the sword of protecting High Holiday prayers and not the sword of an impending indictment that would have forced him to quit anyway.
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