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Lapid on proposed law regulating conscription: ‘This bill won’t pass’
Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and a BA in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid says that the coalition’s proposed bill regulating ultra-Orthodox conscription will not pass.
“It won’t happen. This bill won’t pass,” says the Yesh Atid chair, speaking to the press before a faction meeting at the Knesset. “We’ll stop it in the committee. If not in the committee, in the plenum. If not in the plenum, in the courts. And if not in the courts, in the streets. It won’t become law.”
Lapid notes that multiple coalition MKs have already expressed public opposition to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth’s proposed bill, which allows continued exemptions to conscription for yeshiva students, and that his party is in communication with other coalition MKs.
“Ask yourselves if you’re willing to disgrace the memories of the fallen and betray everything you’ve believed your entire lives for a bill that will collapse far before it gets to the finish line,” he says, directly addressing coalition MKs.
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