PM’s office reports ‘significant progress’ in talks with Edelstein on Haredi draft bill

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6 June 2025, 2:02 am 2 Edit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting alongside Likud MK Yuli Edelstein at the Knesset on June 13, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office reports “significant progress” following his hours-long meeting on the ultra-Orthodox conscription bill with Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein, former Shas MK Ariel Atias and Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs.

“It was decided to make an effort tomorrow to reach agreement on the issues that remain open,” says the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office.