High Court gives government till December to resolve Haredi draft issue

7 August 2018, 9:25 pm

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The High Court of Justice grants a three-month extension on a deadline it had set for passing legislation regulating military service for members of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community. The extension is shorter than the government’s request for seven months.

“After considering this matter, we decided to partially respond to the request and postpone the date… so that it will take effect on December 2, 2018,” the court says in its ruling.

The court ruling, which forces the government to tackle the politically destabilizing issue immediately after the Knesset returns from its summer recess in October, may increase the chances that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition will go to early elections in the fall.