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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Knesset legislation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition lawmakers attend a vote on the 2025 state budget in the Knesset plenum, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Clearing path for budget vote, MKs pass Economic Arrangements Law as Haredim back down
By Sam Sokol
Ben Gvir’s return to the coalition defangs UTJ chief Yitzchak Goldknopf’s threat to scuttle 2025 state budget unless law exempting yeshiva students from IDF service is passed first
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition lawmakers attend a vote on the 2025 state budget in the Knesset plenum, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 20, 2025, 1:55 pm
Clearing path for budget vote, MKs pass Economic Arrangements Law as Haredim back down
Ben Gvir’s return to the coalition defangs UTJ chief Yitzchak Goldknopf’s threat to scuttle 2025 state budget unless law exempting yeshiva students from IDF service is passed first
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 7, 2025, 8:39 am
Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft exemption law not passed
Report says despite PM’s promises, Haredi draft exemption bill likely to be postponed; out of 10,000 Haredim who received draft orders since July, only 177 have enlisted, IDF says
By Sam Sokol
MK Simcha Rothman addresses the Knesset plenum, March 3, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 4, 2025, 11:43 am
Coalition passes judicial overhaul law taking over appointment of judges’ ombudsman
Law ends judges’ ability to choose the person who investigates allegations against them, says justice minister; Gantz slams ‘campaign of revenge’ against judicial system
By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
MK Avraham Betzalel of Shas attends a Health Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 27, 2025, 8:28 pm
Shas MK dismisses UTJ threat to torpedo government if no law exempting Haredim from IDF
‘There is no holy date for the conscription law. On the other hand, if the budget is not passed by the end of March, there will be no government,’ says Avraham Betzalel
By Sam Sokol
Religious Zionism MK Michal Woldiger, during the Religious Zionism primaries, at a polling station in Jerusalem, August 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
February 27, 2025, 9:27 am
Any conscription law on Haredim ‘must be temporary,’ says Religious Zionism MK
Michal Woldiger tells The Times of Israel legislation can be extended if it succeeds in boosting enlistment, but if it fails, ‘then something else needs to be done’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Ariel Kallner speaks during a protest in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 21, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 26, 2025, 7:19 pm
Likud MK presents plan for alternate October 7 commission of inquiry
Unlike an apolitical state commission of inquiry, the members of Ariel Kallner’s proposed ‘egalitarian state commission of inquiry’ would be appointed by the Knesset
By Sam Sokol
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, during a discussion in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, December 18, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 24, 2025, 8:37 pm
Effort to remove AG will start in next few weeks, claims communications minister
Shlomo Karhi says ‘an actual impeachment process will begin’ in 2-3 weeks, but spokesman for Justice Minister Levin says he doesn’t know ‘anything new about the matter’
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport on October 31, 2024. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 20, 2025, 2:25 pm
Knesset passes law prohibiting entry into Israel for October 7, Holocaust deniers
Legislation also bans issuing entry permits to anybody who publicly supports international prosecution of Israeli citizens over their activities in the security services
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, left, chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, February 18, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman's Office)
February 18, 2025, 9:33 pm
Edelstein: Haredi enlistment bill will include individual sanctions on draft dodgers
‘The effectiveness of the sanctions are what will make this law real or not,’ deputy AG tells key Knesset committee deliberating law
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the conscription of Haredim to the IDF in Jerusalem on October 31, 2024. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
February 16, 2025, 7:06 pm
Increasing Haredi IDF enlistment requires strong sanctions, Finance Ministry tells MKs
Budget official says conscription effort will only work if those who refuse to serve feel a real pinch in their pocket; Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz: Economic sanctions needed now
By Sam Sokol
Members of the left-wing NGO Breaking the Silence hold images showing alleged abuses by the Israeli military, during a tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, November 2, 2022. (Flash90)
February 16, 2025, 5:09 pm
Ministers advance bill levying 80% tax on foreign state funding of Israeli NGOs
Association for Civil Rights in Israel calls proposed legislation, which will also block groups from filing lawsuits in Israel, ‘a direct assault on Israel’s democracy’
By Sam Sokol
MK Elazar Stern attends a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, June 26, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 6, 2025, 7:48 pm
MK Elazar Stern: Imprisoning the ultra-Orthodox in yeshivas is ‘against Judaism’
‘Everyone should be a soldier,’ former IDF manpower chief tells Times of Israel, calls to provide limited number of service exemptions for top Talmudic scholars
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox students seen at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 31, 2025, 1:15 am
Debating ultra-Orthodox enlistment law, MKs argue how to define who is Haredi
Only 32% of recruits listed as Haredim are actually ultra-Orthodox, Israel Democracy Institute researcher Gilad Malach tells Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
By Sam Sokol
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Knesset plenum, January 29, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/Knesset)
January 29, 2025, 4:17 pm
After Shas ultimatum, Smotrich rejects ‘concessions’ on Haredi conscription bill
Recruiting currently exempt ultra-Orthodox men is ‘an existential national security necessity,’ minister declares; Haredi party members seek to downplay threat to tank coalition
By Sam Sokol
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, January 15, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
January 28, 2025, 10:28 am
Ministers advance bill to take control of public broadcaster’s oversight council
Communications minister has come under intense criticism for measures seen as aiming to erode the independence of Kan
By Sam Sokol
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