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The attorney general, possibly with good intentions, may have wrecked the idea of a real court deadline with teeth that can get anyone to make hard choices on this fateful issue.
Knesset member Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud) opposes current draft law, not consulted on it before.
Why should some able-bodied young men and women be asked to risk their lives for the collective while other equally able-bodied members of that collective are not asked to do the same?
Haredi party leaders warned that if the bill includes economic sanctions and recruitment quotas, they will leave the government.
The draft, should it pass, would extend the exemption from IDF conscription for haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews.