Deputy To The Defense Minister
Shalom, who won the 18th spot in the combined list of the three parties, became deputy to the defense minister, Itzhak Morderchai. One of his biggest achievements was allowing Hareidi Jews to serve in the army, a step that they had been avoiding in doing for decades. The Hareidi battalion, "Netzach Yehuda", was established on February 1999.
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