Agudat Yisrael Sources Say Goldknopf Could Abstain on Eisenkot Government

Senior Agudat Yisrael figures told journalist Amit Segal that party chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf would abstain rather than vote against a minority government led by Gadi Eisenkot after the October election. The figures said other United Torah Judaism lawmakers might also abstain, but called that uncertain. Goldknopf responded that Agudat Yisrael would neither support nor assist any government without legislation settling yeshiva students' status and a draft law without sanctions or recruitment targets. The reported abstention remains an attributed possibility, not a formal commitment by the full faction.