Minister Goldknopf on the recruitment crisis: "We are being beaten - more than in the Arabs" - voila! news. "These are innocent people who, after all, want to learn Torah - they don't want anything," added the minister when he referred during a wedding he attended.
"Why are you beating them vigorously? drop them money," he added. Last February, Minister Gold knopf provided in an interview to the ultra-Orthodox website "Kirar HaShabbat", another statement that caused controversy.