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Last month, the military announced that legal action was underway against draft candidates from the haredi community who failed to report for enlistment.
The committee’s schedule shows that the coalition is serious about passing the bill into law in the coming months.
Smotrich said that the fact that the haredim did not serve in the IDF was “painful,” however he cannot act on those feelings as a public servant.
The question isn’t whether change will come – it’s already happening at the margins – but rather how deep it will penetrate into the core of haredi society.
According to the polling, in a scenario where a party led by Bennett runs in the elections, the Bennet-led opposition bloc would secure a majority of 66 seats.
Smotrich argued that the haredi parties should support the budget regardless – and then could topple the government over the draft, if they wished.
“Our parents in heaven, listening to this conversation, must be proud," Lapid said in response to Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
Most of Halevi's comments were kept classified as part of the closed session, but select remarks were leaked to the media.
Katz denies Liberman’s claims of bias in IDF interviews as haredi draft law controversy heats up in the Knesset.
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