US EditionGoldknopf Leading Knesset Push for Bill Regulating Haredi IDF Service
- Housing Minister Yizhak Goldknopf leads the Knesset push on April 2025 for a bill regulating ultra-Orthodox IDF conscription amid coalition tensions.
- The push follows the lapse of a Shavuot deadline set by haredi parties requiring progress on the controversial conscription bill.
- Political leaders, including rabbis from Gur and Belz, debate withdrawing from the coalition or continuing negotiations to avoid government collapse.
- About 24,000 draft orders have been ignored since June 2024; the bill aims to raise quotas annually to 50% and impose sanctions on evaders.
- If legislation to dissolve the Knesset is approved, new elections could be held within 90 days, highlighting significant political uncertainty throughout the summer.
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In Israel 70,000 ultra-orthodoxes could be drafted for military service. But this rarely happens. Instead, the same reservists are sent into the fight again and again. There is protest against it. By Jan-Christoph Kitzler.
IDF draft exemption deadlock: Rabbi orders Haredi party to back vote to dissolve Knesset
After coalition leaders under Netanyahu failed to reach a compromise on legislation exempting ultra-Orthodox men from mandatory IDF service, a Lithuanian-Haredi leader instructed his party to support a motion that could collapse the coalition and trigger new elections
The Gate - Early Elections Expected in Israel Amid Coalition Disagreements Expectations are growing for early elections in Israel due to disagreements within the government, most notably the threat by the ultra-Orthodox parties to resign over the conscription issue, and the opposition of the finance and national security ministers to any ceasefire deal in Gaza...
The Israeli government coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a probationary trial with the dispute over conscription. Leading Rabbis of the United Torah Jude Party are threatening to withdraw from the coalition.
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