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Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, June 3, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 22, 2026, 6:06 pm
Almost all bills removed from Knesset agenda as Haredi boycott enters second week
Shas chairman Aryeh Deri warns that unless law benefiting yeshiva students and draft evaders is passed, ‘we will not support any coalition legislation’
By Sam Sokol
Motti Babchik, a senior UTJ political operative, and thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest outside an IDF Military Prison near Kfar Yona, central Israel, against the jailing of seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, June 17, 2026. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
June 18, 2026, 10:20 pm
Enraged by arrests of draft evaders, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community is in revolt
Yeshiva students are blocking roads and breaking into police stations as Haredi parties hold coalition’s legislative agenda hostage. PM said to be considering halting detentions
By Sam Sokol
L-R, front: MKs Yitzhak Goldknopf (L), Moshe Gafni and Yinon Azulai in the Knesset, January 14, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 16, 2026, 7:00 pm
Haredi Knesset boycott continues, putting coalition’s legislative blitz at risk
Bills pulled from plenum agenda for second day in a row as Haredim demand return of daycare subsidies for draft evaders; we ‘will not accept any delay,’ says Degel HaTorah
By Sam Sokol
Coalition whip Ofir Katz (Likud) speaks in the Knesset before the passage of the first reading of a bill to dissolve parliament, June 1, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 2, 2026, 3:31 am
MKs advance bill to dissolve Knesset and potentially move up elections to September
106 MKs vote to disband parliament as Haredi parties turn against coalition over IDF service exemptions; no election date set; coalition whip says it will be between September 8 and October 20
By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel
MK Moshe Gafni attends a finance committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 29, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 27, 2026, 7:26 pm
Following draft evader arrests, Gafni calls on Haredim to halt cooperation with police
Degel HaTorah chair urges local representatives not to ‘become complicit in harming the holy Torah.’ MKs advance bill restoring daycare subsidies for the children of draft dodgers
By Sam Sokol
A plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset on May 27, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 27, 2026, 6:04 pm
Lawmakers to vote Monday on first reading of Knesset dissolution bill
Timeline for passage of legislation unclear; no date set for general elections, but they must be held by October 27
By Sam Sokol
Left to right: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); Leader of the Democrats party Yair Golan leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on May 25, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 27, 2026, 5:16 pm
Opposition party leaders spar over potential inclusion of Haredim in future coalition
Democrats’ Golan slammed after undated clip showed him saying he would sit with ultra-Orthodox if it was the only way to oust Netanyahu-led Likud and far-right; Lapid and Bennett vow no compromise on draft exemptions
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against the detention of yeshiva students who evaded conscription outside the IDF's Beit Lid military prison, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
May 24, 2026, 3:53 pm
Haredi bill aims to reduce draft dodgers’ sentences if religious needs ‘violated’
UTJ’s Porush claims there is ongoing ‘violation of basic religious rights’ of Haredi evaders in military prison, even though IDF provides for the religious needs of soldiers
By Sam Sokol
Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate’s Planning and Personnel Management Division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 21, 2026, 12:03 am
Army complains of manpower shortage as Knesset restarts work on draft exemption bill
‘We will very soon reach the region of ​​80,000-90,000 draft dodgers,’ IDF official tells MKs, as PM launches last-ditch campaign to pass law sparing Haredim from conscription
By Sam Sokol
Lawmakers attend a vote on dissolving the 25th Knesset in the Knesset plenum, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2026, 2:13 pm
MKs advance bill to dissolve Knesset, potentially trigger slightly earlier elections
Netanyahu absent from preliminary vote, which left-wing leader calls ‘beginning of end of worst government in Israel’s history’; bill does not set date for elections, which must in any case be held by Oct. 27
By Sam Sokol and Ariela Karmel
Chairman Simcha Rothman and coalition members of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee vote to advance a bill splitting the position of the attorney general, May 19, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
May 19, 2026, 4:26 pm
MKs vote to advance bills splitting and weakening role of AG, making it harder to indict PM
Opposition MKs walk out, leaving coalition lawmakers to unanimously approve bills for their first readings; deputy AG warns of ‘danger to democratic elections’
By Sam Sokol, Ariela Karmel and Jeremy Sharon
Ultra-Orthodox men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the jailing of a yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at the entrance to Jerusalem, February 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 18, 2026, 6:31 pm
Rebuked by court and military, police say they will detain draft evaders
Shas blasts arrests of ‘precious Torah scholars’; Smotrich demands Haredi leaders endorse military service for those not engaged in full-time Torah study
By Sam Sokol
MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 15, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 17, 2026, 4:51 pm
As coalition collapses around him, Netanyahu revives Haredi draft exemption bill
Renewal of deliberations ‘just an attempt to delay the election date,’ says senior Haredi political official. Lapid accuses PM of ‘selling out Israel’s security’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Ariel Kallner addresses the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, May 13, 2026. (Noam Moskowitz/Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
May 13, 2026, 4:33 pm
Call for ‘independent’ inquiry removed from coalition bill establishing Oct. 7 probe
Removal of clause a ‘clerical error,’ says MK Kallner; updated draft would disqualify former senior military and intelligence officials from sitting on the politically appointed panel
By Sam Sokol
A meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, October 19, 2025. (Maayan Taof/ GPO)
May 10, 2026, 9:01 pm
Ministers back bills giving government ‘sole discretion’ over senior appointments
Ministerial Committee for Legislation pushes off decisions on proposals to cancel Oslo Accords, bar immigration and citizenship for non-Orthodox converts
By Sam Sokol
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