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Coalition chiefs to meet amid divides over Haredi draft exemption legislation
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An ultra-Orthodox man walks past a sign for the IDF recruitment office in Jerusalem, August 16, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Coalition party leaders are slated to convene for talks later today amid internal disagreements over advancing legislation that would exempt yeshiva students from mandatory military service, as demanded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox allies.
“There is a coalition agreement and we hope that everyone will meet their commitments, as we are meeting ours,” Housing Minister Yitzhack Goldknopf, head of the United Torah Judaism party, told reporters before the cabinet meeting earlier today.
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