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Haredi parties return to voting with coalition after draft-exemption bill published
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UTJ MKs Yitzhak Goldknopf and Moshe Gafni at the Knesset plenum, Jerusalem, September 29, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)
The ultra-Orthodox parties United Torah Judaism and Shas announce they will resume voting with the coalition, after boycotting government votes over the issue of drafting Haredim to the IDF.
The announcement comes after the text of MK Boaz Bismuth’s proposed bill to resolve the issue was published. The bill would preserve exemptions for full-time yeshiva students and loosen sanctions on draft dodgers. It has been panned by the opposition as “anti-Zionist.”
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