Netanyahu summons ultra-Orthodox party heads amid draft bill feuding
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summons the heads of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties amid coalition infighting over legislation allowing Jewish seminary students to avoid compulsory military service.
Netanyahu’s meeting with the Haredi lawmakers comes after they threatened to withhold support for the 2019 state budget if their bill isn’t passed.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and his Yisrael Beytenu party have come out strongly against the bill and traded barbs over the proposed legislation with ultra-Orthodox lawmakers.
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