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Israeli minister quits over Sabbath row
9 years agosraeli Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, whose ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism alliance is part of Netanyahu's coalition, gives a press conference at the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel HaShomer near Tel Aviv on September 14, 2016. JACK GUEZ / AFP
An ultra-Orthodox minister in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government quit on Sunday in a dispute over work on the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest.