Aryeh Deri, the head of Shas, said that the Haredi parties would try to legislate the draft law from outside the government.
(July 14, 2025 / JNS) The Haredi parties appear set to abandon the coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in protest of the government’s failure to pass a draft law exempting ultra-Orthodox men from the army. However, they say they will continue to bolster the government while sitting outside it.
The first to depart will be Degel HaTorah, a faction of the United Torah Judaism party. It received a letter on Monday from members of the Council of Torah Sages, a rabbinical policymaking body, instructing it to resign immediately from the coalition if a draft law isn’t presented by Monday, Kan News reported.
United Torah Judaism includes two factions: Degel HaTorah and Agudat Israel. Agudat Israel will presumably follow at some point later this week.