Report: Attorney general won’t support Netanyahu’s Haredi draft proposal

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has reportedly told Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs that she will not be able to defend the wording of the government’s outline for a Haredi draft law that was circulated earlier today.

Channel 12 cites “significant and essential difficulties” with the proposal, without giving details.

As such, the government will need to amend the draft if it wants the attorney general’s support should the legislation be appealed in the High Court, the report adds.

The High Court struck down legislation allowing for the blanket exemption of Haredi men from military service in 2017 as discriminatory, and gave the government one year to pass new legislation which would boost levels of ultra-Orthodox military enlistment.

It has since given the state innumerable extensions to that deadline due to elections and other reasons.