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MK Yohanan Plesner warns that IDF will collapse if Netanyahu gives up on universal service initiative
View ArticleRight-wing activists demonstrate in Nazareth for universal draft
Baruch Marzel tells local Arabs ‘We’re here to open a military recruitment office’
View ArticleKnesset speaker: new universal draft law only after elections
Sources suggest deepening crisis between Netanyahu and Mofaz, predict January elections
View ArticleWhatever became of the national interest?
Netanyahu and Mofaz really did have a rare opportunity to correct a historic inequality on conscription. Predictably, they blew it
View ArticleRenegade Kadima members meet with Likud over conscription plan
MKs bypass Shaul Mofaz, meet with vice premier Ya’alon
View ArticleKadima members ready to rejoin coalition in exchange for ministerial posts
Returning MKs promise to vote with Netanyahu on upcoming draft legislation and 2013 budget
View ArticleKadima split in question after night of political maneuvers
7 MKs needed for move to go through but so far only 5 have announced they are quitting the party
View ArticleKadima split fails as MKs get cold feet
After night of political maneuvering, only 4 out of 7 MKs needed for break-off were prepared to leave
View ArticleMofaz bids to boot out four Kadima MKs who wanted to join the Likud
Opposition leader accuses Netanyahu of ‘political bribery’ after plan to split Kadima fails, says renegade MKs should be ashamed of themselves
View ArticleAs government fails on universal conscription, civil society springs into action
NGOs launch symbolic protests and legal appeals to push conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Tal Law, exempting tens of thousands of Haredim from military service, lapses Wednesday
View ArticleTal Law expiration won’t bring immediate sea change in Haredi draft
Defense minister gives army 30 days to find temporary solution to drafting ultra-Orthodox, until Knesset legislates permanent Tal Law replacement
View ArticleCabinet approves draft of 1,300 ultra-Orthodox into civil service
Critics slam ‘expedient’ solution to thorny issue of Haredim in the military
View ArticleLapid says he’ll go to court to stop ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions
Yesh Atid head calls move to allow 1,300 Haredi men to serve national service a ‘scandal’
View Article3,000 ultra-Orthodox receive IDF draft notices, to be called up by August
Head of manpower in the army says 2013 the first year in which Haredi draftees number in the thousands
View ArticleShas spiritual leader calls on Haredim to emigrate rather than join army
‘We are surrounded by haters,’ says former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, referring to those who want to draft yeshiva students
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