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Likud: No agreement reached yet on new IDF draft law
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Illustrative: Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with Israeli police during a protest in Jerusalem on April 10, 2014, following the arrest of a Haredi draft-dodger. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The Likud party says that no agreement has been reached so far on talks to fashion a new IDF enlistment law.
“As of no, there is no agreement on a Draft Law,” the party says in a statement.
The reported proposal on the table would lower the age of final exemption from the army from the current 26 to 23. According to reports, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants it to be lowered further to 21, while Defense Minister Yoav Gallant believes it cannot go lower than 23.
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