legal limbo
Netanyahu scrambling for solutions as Haredi IDF exemption law expires
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara told the government on Sunday that the court’s ruling required it to act immediately
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Female soldiers walk past a group of Haredi boys and men during a protest against the expiration of a law preventing them from being drafted into the IDF by blocking the main road in and out of the city on March 18, 2024 in Jerusalem.
The expiration of a measure exempting Israel’s Haredi population from military service left Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government scrambling to resolve the situation before the IDF starts conscripting full-time yeshiva students, which could trigger an early election.
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