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Netanyahu has been rumored to be ready to extend the Haredi exemption from IDF and national service in practice while trying to make some symbolic gesture toward greater service.
"What is the utility of general elections now?" asked Netanyahu. "General election means the end of the war."
Defense Minister Gallant: "If a wide consensus is not achieved, I will not be submitting the conscription law at the behest of the Defense Ministry."
MQG chairman Dr. Eliad Shraga said that without increasing the IDF’s manpower, Israel would be left vulnerable.
A symbolic benefit would also be achieved: the ultra-Orthodox would wear uniforms like their non-haredi counterparts and experience a sense of having “joined” the larger society.