Cabinet green-lights bill on ultra-Orthodox military enlistment

The cabinet approves a bill formalizing military enlistment for ultra-Orthodox students, setting up the bill for a first Knesset reading tomorrow.

All the ministers vote in favor of the bill except Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who skipped the vote.

Both Deri and Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who respectively head the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, have expressed their opposition to the legislation in its current version, though the bill is still likely to pass with the support of the opposition Yesh Atid party.

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