The coalition management has reached understandings with Shas and Degel Hatorah, according to which the factions are expected to vote again starting next week with the coalition.
According to a report this evening (Thursday) in 'Kan News', the understandings, which were reached after the draft of the draft law was placed on the table of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today, are expected to put an end to the Haredi voting boycott, which has been going on since the middle of the previous Knesset session.
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Additionally, next week, Aryeh Deri's party is expected to return to the positions it held in the coalition. It is estimated that the parties will wait to return to the government itself until the draft law is actually advanced.
The voting boycott by the ultra-Orthodox parties has been ongoing since June, in protest of the failure to advance the conscription law.
During the past time, the ministries of welfare, health, labor, religious affairs, and Jerusalem have operated without ministers. About a week ago, the Knesset approved the appointment of acting ministers to head the ministries with the support of the Haredi.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Boaz Bismut, distributed the text of the new conscription law this afternoon.
Bismuth declared that this was a significant step: "This is what we are setting out on - with a balanced, responsible conscription law that is good for the people of Israel. This law is not here to stabilize a coalition, it is here to stabilize the country. With God's help, we will do it and succeed.".
The Prime Minister's entourage responded: "The conscription law introduced today, something that has not been done since the founding of the state, will result in the conscription of approximately 23,000 Haredim within 3 and a half years; 4 times the average to date and the targets set in the original Lieberman-Gantz law. The law combines sanctions and strict restrictions for failure to meet the targets. This is an excellent law, and this law will pass.".
