A spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it will vote in favor of dissolving the Knesset on Wednesday.
“As things stand, we will vote on Wednesday in favor of dissolving the Knesset, Shas spokesman Asher Medina says in an interview with the Kol Beramah radio station.
“We are disappointed with [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu. We expected him to take action previously and not just in the past few days,” he says.
Netanyahu’s ruling coalition entered a crisis last week, when ultra-Orthodox parties United Torah Judaism and Shas began issuing threats of leaving the coalition and dissolving the Knesset if the government does not pass a bill exempting yeshiva students from military service.
On Friday, Netanyahu’s office reported “significant progress” in his negotiations with the ultra-Orthodox parties regarding the draft exemption bill.
However, the ultra-Orthodox parties are keeping up threats to bring down the government.
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