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Ultra-Orthodox parties threaten to bolt coalition if IDF cracks down on draft evaders
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Senior ultra-Orthodox political officials have informed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the launch of a large-scale enforcement operation against Haredi draft dodgers could bring about the Haredi parties’ “immediate resignation from the government,” public broadcaster Kan reports.
Speaking with the Ynet news site, an unnamed senior Haredi party official says that “if dozens and hundreds of yeshiva students are indeed arrested, as we currently seeing, these will be the government’s last days.”
Both the Shas and UTJ parties would need to leave to bring down Netanyahu’s coalition.
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