The Yisrael Beytenu coalition party announces it will vote against a proposed bill on the ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions, should Haredi lawmakers bring it to a preliminary reading this week.
In a letter to coalition chairman David Amsalem (Likud), MK Robert Ilatov demands the proposed legislation be okayed by ministers before being brought to the plenum for a preliminary vote.
“In the event the bill does not go through the required process, the entire Yisrael Beytenu party, including Immigration Minister Sofa Landvar, will vote against the law,” he writes.
The ultra-Orthodox parties have been seeking to raise their bill by Wednesday for a preliminary vote, conditioning their support for the state budget — set to be brought to its final votes over the next several weeks — on the passage of their law.
The Defense Ministry, which is run by Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman, is formulating its own version of the draft law.
— Marissa Newman
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