In his conversations with chareidi MKs, Netanyahu assessed that a Knesset majority for a draft law does exist
The link is hard to resist. The ICC arrest warrants against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and dismissed defense minister Yoav Gallant were issued the same week that the Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee discussed arrest warrants for 1,126 yeshivah students who failed to answer their first and second draft notices.
The move to arrest yeshivah students can be credited to dismissed defense minister Yoav Gallant. “I couldn’t stop the process once it started, but from now on we’ll do everything by consensus,” incoming defense minister Yisrael Katz told Degel HaTorah MKs this week.
Despite the pessimistic view of the Slabodka rosh yeshivah, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch, who set out for the US this week on a fundraising trip, Netanyahu sounded optimistic. In his conversations with chareidi MKs, Netanyahu assessed that a Knesset majority for a draft law does exist.
“Focus on the talks with Yisrael Katz — when you have an agreement, I’ll deal with the Likud,” said Netanyahu, promising to secure the vote of every Likud MK, including Yuli Edelstein, chair of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, and with the sole exception of Yoav Gallant, who’s no longer counted as a member of the coalition.
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