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Knesset panel okays reservist call-up after Haredi MKs join fight
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. 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 approves the government’s emergency call-up of tens of thousands of additional reservists, a day after the measure failed to muster enough support in the same committee.
The approval is good for one week, with another vote scheduled next week.
Yesterday’s vote was deadlocked 2-2, forcing the coalition to call for ultra-Orthodox members of the committee — who oppose sending their own children to the army — to enlist in the effort to approve the call-up.
Following the vote, Yesh Atid MK Yorai Lahav Hertzanu of the opposition complains on social media that the measure passed because a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party voted in favor, even as his party is threatening to bring down the coalition over the IDF’s decision to enforce enlistment orders.
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