From Religious Zionism: We’ll only pass conscription law ‘that changes current reality’
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party slams Degel HaTorah’s announcement that the ultra-Orthodox faction’s rabbinic leaders have given its MKs the “green light” to advance legislation regulating the conscription of yeshiva students.
“Press releases are not a plan of action, neither from Degel nor from coalition officials. Only a law that changes the current reality and enlists Haredim is a law we will pass. The State of Israel needs more soldiers. Period,” the party says.
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