6/26/2024–|Last updated: 6/26/202402:45 PM (Mecca time)
The controversy over the crisis of recruiting religious Jews known as “Haredim”, and its repercussions on the cohesion of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, topped the headlines in the Israeli media, and it also touched on the latest developments regarding the prisoner exchange deal and Netanyahu’s efforts to abort it.
Regarding the Haredi issue, Aviad Glickman, a judicial affairs analyst for Channel 13, explained that the two basic orders that the nine Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously are, first, that “all Haredim must immediately perform military service, meaning that there will be no exemption from military service.” Conscription, as the government had continually requested exemption until a law was enacted.”
The second matter is that “the financial support that religious schools received after the exemption will stop, and this means that the temporary order that stopped funding has turned into a permanent order.”
The Supreme Court in Israel ruled yesterday, Tuesday, that the government must recruit religiously observant Jewish institute students (Haredim) into the army.
Lior Wrestlavsky, a political affairs correspondent for Channel 13, said that Haredi politicians condemn the Supreme Court, but do not threaten to dissolve Netanyahu’s government.
Channel 13 reported that the minister, Meir Porush from the United Torah Judaism party, stated, “The State of Israel will be divided into two states following this judicial ruling.”
As for Rabbi Motka Ploy, a leader of the Degel HaTorah party, he commented on the judicial ruling by saying, “The Supreme Court is behaving like the courts in The Hague. There is anti-Semitism, and there is anti-Semitism itself.”
According to Iir Kilner, a member of the Knesset from the Likud Party, “There are those in the State of Israel who seek to open the internal front so that we will have a permanent internal war.”
On another topic, Channel 12 touched on the occurrence of partisan political clashes after Netanyahu finished his last speech before the Knesset, and quoted the speech of Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, in which he directed severe criticism at Netanyahu, as he addressed him, saying: “Do you think we will forgive you for killing us? There will be nothing left of you.” There will be no museum bearing your name, no square, and there will be no Benjamin Netanyahu Fountain. There is only one thing: October 7.”
On the other hand, Channel 13 quoted Udi Goren, a relative of one of the Israeli detainees in Gaza, as saying, “Netanyahu canceled the deal he proposed, and said, ‘What should be put on the table is neither victory nor shoes!’”