Haredi lawmakers said dissatisfied following meeting with Edelstein on IDF conscription bill

6 July 2025, 8:49 pm Edit

A meeting between Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Yuli Edelstein and representatives of the Haredi parties has ended without any breakthrough being reached on the controversial bill regulating the conscription of yeshiva students, Channel 12 reports.

Anonymous sources from the United Torah Judaism and Shas parties tell the news outlet that Edelstein only presented them with a general overview of the new, softened version of the conscription bill, rather than the full text.

As such, they say, “the crisis continues.”

The two Haredi parties are considering boycotting all plenum votes in the Knesset until presented with a new draft of the bill.