AA / Jerusalem / Saïd Amori
Israel’s emergency government’s war cabinet canceled a meeting scheduled for Thursday evening due to the crisis over the conscription law, according to Israeli media reports.
This was reported by Israel’s Channel 13 (Private) and explained that the cancellation of the meeting, which was planned to discuss the development of the agreement on the exchange of prisoners with the Hamas movement, took place in the context of the crisis of the currently controversial conscription law in Israel.
The channel has not released any additional details regarding this matter.
Religious parties in the ruling coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu have threatened to quit the government if the new conscription law is passed. This law does not exempt Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) from military service.
Israeli law requires all men and women over the age of 18 to serve in the military, but the Haredim, who make up about 13 percent of the population of about 9.5 million, do not serve in the army on the grounds that they are self-serving. He lives before studying the Torah in religious institutes.
Dismissal of Haredim from military service has been a source of controversy in Israel for decades, the intensity of which has increased in the context of the war in the Gaza Strip, which has lasted since October 7, 2023. Secular parties (in government and opposition) demand that Haredim participate in the war effort.
Since 2017, successive governments have failed to reach a consensual Haredim conscription law after the Supreme Court overturned a 2015 law that exempted Haredim from military service, ruling that the exemption violated the “principle of equality.” .
The Knesset (Parliament) has since continued to extend conscription, and at the end of March a government order to postpone mandatory conscription for Haredim expired, requiring the government in writing to submit. Answer regarding steps to be taken by the Supreme Court to resolve this pressing issue.
Earlier on Thursday, the government’s Prosecutor General and Judicial Advisor Gali Baharav-Miara sent a letter to the Supreme Court requesting the conscription of ultra-Orthodox clerics from the beginning of April.
Source: AA
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