Israel’s Supreme Court recently made a unanimous ruling that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into the military. This decision ends a decades-old system that previously granted exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men from military service. The court emphasized that there was no legal basis for differentiating between yeshiva students and other eligible Israelis for conscription, effectively removing the exemption. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition relies on ultra-Orthodox parties, and this ruling could potentially lead to the collapse of his government.
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