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Knesset panel chair urges ‘real solution’ as work set to begin on new Haredi draft bill
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense committee has finished its deliberations on a proposed bill regulating Haredi military enlistment and will begin drafting a new text of the controversial legislation, chairman Yuli Edelstein announces.
Addressing members of the committee following the end of its latest meeting, the Likud lawmaker states that “we have completed the discussions phase” and that the committee’s legal staff will now begin drafting an updated version of the legislation.
“We need a real solution, and I very much hope that we will be able to bring one,” he states.
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