Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured another reprieve in a long-running Israeli dispute over exemptions of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, with the Supreme Court on Thursday deferring the deadline for a new conscription plan to May 16.
The court, hearing appeals that described the decades-old waiver as discriminatory, had given March 31 as the original deadline. That was extended to April 30 at the request of the government, which argued it was busy waging the Gaza war, and which last week asked for a further deferral.
The latest extension is shorter than that requested by the government, but might still spare Netanyahu a public reckoning over the combustible issue ahead of Israel's day of commemoration for fallen soldiers May 13, and Independence Day on May 14.
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