Netanyahu’s government is threatened

After two coalition partners announced the withdrawal Benjamin Netanyahu Due to its inability to adopt legislation that would exclude ultra -organic Jews from military service, the Israeli MPs will vote tomorrow on the proposal of the opposition to dissolve parliament. In recent days, it has indicated that the vote could succeed – and Israel, the country in a deep political, security and moral crisis, to early elections.

On the day most of the world’s media dealt with detention Grete Thunberg and other members of the crew of the Humanitarian ship Madleen, intercepted by the Israeli Navy on the way to the besieged gauzein Israel and in analytical circles, they have grown to speculate whether Netanyaho can save his diving coalition just before the now.

His government has been in crisis due to disagreements about whether the military service should also serve the ultra -organic Jewish students. Last year, the founding court ruled in a high -profile judgment that the same rules should be considered for this long -protected category of population as others. The party of ŠAS and the United Tora Judaism (UTJ), which in total in the princess, have controlled 18 parliamentary votes, have since pressured Netanjahu and coalition partners to re -create an exception in legislation and to exclude ultra -organic students out of military obligations. As their pressures did not crack, last week they announced that they would support the proposal of the largest opposition Jesh Attid party on the dissolution of the Kneset during tomorrow’s vote.

With the withdrawal of the support of the second and third largest coalition partner, the Netanjahu government would lose the majority in the 120-member legislative body, and the collapse of the coalition that has been leading the country since December 2022 would most likely lead to a call for early parliamentary elections.

Premier (yet) is not ready to give up

The prime minister, who is protected by power insisting against prosecution due to alleged corrupt acts, has tried to smooth a dispute with the ultraortodox parties in recent days, thus resolving his third government before breaking up. On Friday, Netanyahu’s office said in a press release that « significant progress » had been made in the negotiations, but representatives of the chassis and UTJ continued to insist on the new week that their deputies would vote to dissolve parliament.

According to Israeli media, the announcement of the government’s crisis has also contributed to the announcement that the army in July would be called by 54,000 ultra -organized students to serve military service in the next 12 months. In parallel, they are also intended to tighten the implementation of sanctions against thousands of those who have not responded to such calls in the last year. These measures would be popular among the highly polarized public: since the beginning of the war in Gaza, several surveys have shown that the vast majority of Israelis are opposed to the exemption of ultra -organic Jews from military service.

The prime minister, who is protected by power insisting against prosecution due to alleged corrupt acts, has tried to smooth a dispute with ultra -organic parties in recent days. Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Two days before voting is the head of the opposition Jair Lapid warned that Netanyahu and the coalition parties are still looking for a compromise to alleviate or postpone the penalties for ultraortodox students who would not respond to the call to the army. He declared their efforts to attempt to enact fraud. “The law without immediate sanctions is not a law. This is another Netanjahu’s lie, which issues our fighters, our safety, only to keep our collapse coalition for a few weeks, « Lapid insisted.

Last week, the champion of the largest opposition party announced that the life expectancy of the current KNESET convocation had expired, saying that in the current composition, « it brought only pain, catastrophe, loss and crisis » in the current composition. «