Eliyahu Pinhasi
Eliyahu Pinhasi is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for several right-wing parties, including Likud and Tzomet, from 1984 to 1999. He held ministerial roles as Minister of Communications and later Minister of Health, and was known for his involvement in the passage of the Oslo Accords while serving as a cabinet minister.
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Jun 5, 2026
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Rabbi Pinhasi, a haredi religious figure, publicly denounced haredi Knesset members from Shas and UTJ for failing over many years to legally regularize the status of yeshiva students exempt from military service.
Religious Zionism, which supports IDF service as a religious obligation, sees this internal haredi critique as validation of its longstanding argument that UTJ and Shas MKs have exploited the draft exemption issue politically without resolving it.