Israel’s governing coalition intends to pass a law regulating the draft into the Israel Defense Forces of Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish men during this fall’s parliamentary session, temporarily delaying its judicial reform program.
“This is the order: First the draft law, and only then the continuation of the legal reform,” said coalition whip MK Ofir Katz (Likud) to Ynet on Thursday, stressing, “We don’t know yet what the law will look like, how it will be phrased and what the numbers [of draftees] will be.”
