The Haredi parties are threatening to dissolve the Knesset immediately, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that there is no majority for the conscription law, according to a report in Kan News.
In recent hours, a crisis has erupted between Degel Hatorah faction chairman Moshe Gafni and Prime Minister Netanyahu's office, and as of now, Gafni is refusing to accept calls from the Prime Minister.
Agudat Israel has been working for some time to dissolve the Knesset. The fingers of the Knesset members in Torah Judaism are not enough to dissolve the Knesset, and Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri is not joining the calls for dissolving the Knesset at this stage. Deri is working to reach agreements on the date for dissolving the Knesset and launching an election campaign.
Journalist Amit Segal quoted a senior coalition official who told him: The ultra-Orthodox' threats to dissolve the Knesset only help the one who did them the most harm, the Advocate General. Once again, they are protecting her, and helping her prevent the passage of the law to split the role of the Advocate General.
About two weeks ago, the High Court of Justice ordered the state to prepare to impose sanctions against Haredim who do not enlist as part of petitions filed against the contempt of court for failing to enforce Haredi enlistment in the absence of a conscription law.
The panel of judges, headed by Supreme Court Vice President Noam Solberg, determined a series of sanctions that must be prepared to be imposed after the enactment of the conscription law did not progress and the position of the legal advisor to the government is that the law should be enforced and ultra-Orthodox members should be conscripted.
Last November, the High Court of Justice ordered the government to formulate an effective policy that includes sanctions to enforce conscription and emphasized that benefits for draft evaders, including subsidies, should not be allowed. "This renunciation of enforcing the provisions of the Security Service Law constitutes a violation of the duty of the authorized authorities to enforce the laws of the state, undermines the obligation to conscript, erodes the provisions of the Planned Security Service Law, and even amounts to selective enforcement," the ruling stated.
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