End of religious exemption from military service creates ‘open wound’ within Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition
Israel’s supreme court has unanimously ruled that the military must conscript ultraorthodox religious students, in a decision that will test the unity of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition with far-right and religious parties.
Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of the United Torah Judaism party, one of the two Haredi parties in Netanyahu’s coalition, said the ruling was “very unfortunate and disappointing”. Aryeh Deri, leader of Shas, the other Haredi party in the coalition, said studying the Torah was “our secret weapon against all enemies, as promised by the creator of the world”.“The Jewish people survived persecutions, pogroms and wars only thanks to maintaining their uniqueness — the Torah and the commandments,” he said.
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