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Likud MK says AG impeding efforts to draft law on ultra-Orthodox IDF enlistment
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MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, accuses Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of impeding lawmakers’ efforts to draft legislation regulating ultra-Orthodox military enlistment.
Baharav-Miara has “prohibited the Defense Ministry’s legal adviser from taking any part in the conscription law debates,” he states. “What has been forgotten in recent years is that the attorney general is not supposed to decide or interfere in the work of the Knesset.”
His comments come amid an almost unprecedented push by the government to fire Baharav-Miara.
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