Ultra-Orthodox MK Goldknopf asks PM Netanyahu to Extend Breslov Framework For Uman Pilgrimage To Chabad As Well

MK Yitzhak Goldknopf, United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, is demanding a new framework be put in place to enable the financing of the Chabad Hassidim’s annual trip to New York with government resources and special exceptions for draft dodgers.

Goldknopf asks for a similar treatment that the Breslov hassidim received with the latest framework that allows for NIS 10 million to be used in their Rosh Hashanah pilgrimages to Uman, Ukraine.

“I would like to respectfully raise an additional request that has come up in many inquiries directed to my office from heads of yeshivas and important rabbis from the Chabad community: to expand the framework so it also includes the thousands of Chabad Hassidim who travel every year during the holidays to be with their spiritual leader,” Goldknopf said in the letter.

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