High Court Suspends Law Banning Arrests of Haredi Draft Dodgers
The court kept existing enforcement in place while it weighs petitions alleging the measure gives ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students a sector-specific exemption.
- On Wednesday, Israel's High Court of Justice suspended a newly passed law that would have frozen arrest and enforcement proceedings against ultra-Orthodox Israelis who fail to report for mandatory military service, just hours after the Knesset narrowly approved it.
- A 2024 Supreme Court ruling mandating ultra-Orthodox conscription prompted the government to issue draft notices and arrest warrants as the IDF faced mounting manpower shortages from extended deployments in Gaza and along Israel's northern border.
- The measure passed by a narrow 58-54 margin despite defections from Likud lawmakers Yuli Edelstein and Dan Illouz, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel, and coalition member Moshe Solomon; Haskel resigned hours later.
- Opposition groups hailed the court decision as blocking immunity for draft evaders, while Shas chairman Arye Deri condemned it as 'power-drunk judicial activism,' claiming the court chose to 'trample democracy, deepen the chaos and irresponsibly drag the country toward civil war.'
- An expanded panel of justices selected by Supreme Court President Isaac Amit will hear the petitions as soon as possible, with the Movement for Quality Government vowing to pursue full repeal of both the exemption law and the Torah Study Basic Law.
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Only one day after the Israeli Parliament passed a law to suspend the arrest of ultra-orthodox students who refused to perform military service, the Israeli Supreme Court suspended the application of the measure. The court also issued an order for the State to explain why the legislation should not be annulled and determined that remedies against the measure should be examined by an expanded collegiate of judges. Background: Israel approves a la…
Israel paralysed law enforcement that benefited ultra-orthodox youth who did not perform military service.
The highest judicial body in the Hebrew state considers it illegal that this law applied "only to certain parts of the population".
It was only yesterday that Israel's parliament passed a law that effectively exempts ultra-orthodoxes from compulsory military service - now the Supreme Court is stopping it for the time being. Ultra-orthodox politicians are outraged by Julio Segador.
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