Israel's Supreme Court Ruling: Ultra-Orthodox Conscription Controversy
Israel's Supreme Court mandated the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military, a decision that threatens Prime Minister Netanyahu's coalition. The ruling addresses the long-standing exemption for ultra-Orthodox students and its impact, especially during Israel's multi-front conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government must draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the conscript military, a decree likely to send shockwaves through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition.
Netanyahu's coalition relies for its survival on two ultra-Orthodox parties that regard longstanding conscription exemptions as key to keeping their constituents in religious seminaries and away from a melting-pot military that might test their conservative customs. The ultra-Orthodox conscription waiver has become especially charged as Israel's armed forces, made up mostly of teenaged conscripts and older civilians mobilised for reserve duty, are overstretched by a multi-front war, in Gaza and Lebanon.
"At the height of a difficult war, the burden of inequality is more than ever acute," the court's unanimous ruling said. Most Israelis are bound by law to serve in the military, whereas ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students have been largely exempt for decades.
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