The Supreme Court docket on Thursday ordered the suspension of state subsidies for ultra-Orthodox Jews learning in yeshivas as a substitute of doing navy service. The ruling might have far-reaching penalties for Netanyahu’s authorities and for the tens of 1000’s of non secular males who at present are exempt from necessary navy service.
The court docket ruling got here simply days forward of an April 1 deadline for the Israeli authorities to agree on a brand new regulation to permit the ultra-Orthodox group to keep away from being drafted, in response to media studies. The federal government is debating a invoice which reportedly seeks to strike a compromise by permitting exemptions with limitations.
It’s the most critical menace to Netanyahu’s authorities since he cobbled collectively a shaky nationwide unity administration within the days after the Oct. 7 assault by the Hamas militant group.
