The court order withdrawing funding from yeshiva students who shun military service could cost Benjamin Netanyahu’s government the support of the ultra-Orthodox parties.
Israeli police officers scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a protest over a potential new draft law that could end their exemptions from military service, in Jerusalem on March 18. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a coalition crisis over drafting ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, an intractable battle at the heart of the state’s identity that has been sharpened by country’s manpower needs during the war with Hamas.
Since then, however, the number qualifying for exemption has mushroomed, and the ultra-Orthodox make up 13 percent of the population. Their political parties have been key members of Netanyahu’s successive governments. If ultra-Orthodox parties pull out of the coalition in protest, it would propel Israel into elections at a time when Netanyahu is deeply unpopular, his security credentials shattered by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.Malach described it as another “shake” for the coalition. It comes as a potential cease-fire with Hamas also threatens Netanyahu’s support from his far-right partners. “We have more and more signals, and harder signals that the ship is shaking,” he said.
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