Yitzhak Goldknopf

Bennett doubles down on mandatory haredi enlistment, blames current gov't for lack of IDF soldiers

"Draft evasion is costing the lives of our soldiers," the former prime minister said during an interview on Radio 103FM.

Naftali Bennett at the scene where a ballistic missile fired from Iran hit Tel Aviv overnight, causing heavy damage, March 1, 2026.
OMER ETZION, acting as US President Donald Trump on Eretz Nehederet.

‘Maybe we’ll bomb them, maybe I’ll just dance’: Eretz Nehederet laughs at Trump’s Iran attack plan

Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, head of the Gur hassidic dynasty,  seen after a meeting of the Council of Torah Sages regarding the haredi draft exemption bill in Jerusalem, January 7, 2026.

Ultra-Orthodox sages convene on haredi IDF draft bill, withhold official stance

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters gather in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, to celebrate draft dodgers' release from miiltary prison, November 30, 2025; illustrative.

From yellow badges to ‘extermination ovens’: Toxic rhetoric of haredi draft protests - editorial


Grapevine: Much that is positive

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 MAYOR MOSHE LION on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road.

Israel approves construction of new town in Galilee region

Construction Minister Goldknopf announced that on Sunday he plans to bring forward a bill for the establishment of a new town, to be named Ramat Arbel.

Arbel Nature Reserve, December 20, 2018

Tension in coalition mounts over last minute budget demands

Agudat Yisrael demands additional funds, threatens to oppose budget; Smotrich threatens to resign

Israeli MKs of the United Torah Judaism party Meir Porush reacts as he sits in the plenum as the Knesset approves Yesh Atid's draft bill on first reading early Tuesday morning, in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, early July 23, 2013

Israel to permit financing of apartment purchases in installments

Yaakov Kwint, director general of the Israel Land Authority: "The trend of falling apartment prices will continue in the coming months."

Apartment for sale in Jerusalem

Israeli gov't will collapse without new IDF draft bill, top haredi minister warns

UTJ chairman and minister Yitzhak Goldknopf failed to provide a deadline for the re-negotiation of the haredi draft bill.

 LIKUD LEADER BENJAMIN Netanyahu shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset last week. If Netanyahu’s promise of a full budget for all haredi educational institutions is realized, the already-low incentive to provide core studies will disappear entirely.

Don’t miss the opportunity to integrate haredim in Israel - opinion

Seventy-five years after David Ben-Gurion gave the famous exemption to 400 yeshiva students, the state is again facing a critical juncture.

 CONSTRUCTION AND Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

UTJ demands that haredi Draft Law amendment pass before budget

The coalition leaders are set to meet Sunday to discuss the issue further.

Haredi men protest outside the draft office in Jerusalem on November 28.

Housing cabinet approved by gov't, to be headed by Minister Goldknopf

The new committee will be granted broad powers to tackle the housing crisis in the country.

 Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf at a change-over ceremony with former Housing Minister Zeev Elkin, January 1, 2023.

Goldknopf to Regev: End train-track construction work on Shabbat

Housing Minister Moshe Goldknopf asserted that the construction contradicts the coalition agreements signed between UTJ and the Likud.

 UTJ CHAIRMAN Yitzhak Goldknopf: Interested in finance, not mathematics.

Israeli Housing Minister Goldknopf resigns from Knesset under Norwegian Law

Yizhak Pindros, who served as an MK in the previous Knesset, will once again become an MK.

 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022