The Ger Rebbe, his son Nechemia Alter and Moti Babchik, chief of staff to Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, will depart for the United States after Shabbat to raise funds for Hasidic institutions. The funds will cover the next two years of budgets frozen by the High Court for those subject to military draft. The flight is scheduled as negotiations continue between the ultra-Orthodox parties and Likud to advance the draft exemption law.
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Amid draft crisis: Ger Rebbe and UTJ officials flying to U.S. for fundraising
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