Probable outcomes of High Court's rulings on ultra-orthodox draft
An expanded panel of nine High Court justices heard six petitions against the widespread military service exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox men and the government stipends to yeshivot for students who no longer have a legal exemption. The petitions come after the recent expiration of a contentious government decision extending an arrangement for the draft exemptions, which itself expired a year ago. Advocate Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, the head of the Jacob’s Center for Shared Society at the Israel Democracy Institute, said the justices were more inclined than ever before to actually rule on…
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