As throughout the entire process, the responses to the orders as well as the proposals for a draft law are coming in retrospect
Chaos has returned to the Knesset corridors. The coalition is imposing strict party discipline ahead of the customary Monday no-confidence votes in a desperate bid to survive, even as the chareidi parties boycott votes on government bills in protest over the draft.
The chareidim are following through on their threat to block coalition legislation — including a bill that would split the attorney general’s roles as government legal advisor and chief state prosecutor into two separate positions — for as long as the legal status of yeshivah students remains unresolved. This last-ditch attempt is only spurring the attorney general to issue new draconian measures against Torah learners every week, from issuing arrest warrants for yeshivah students to keeping children of avreichim out of day care centers.
But the real confidence vote is occurring not in the Knesset plenum, but in the yeshivah study halls, during bein hasdorim, and in conversations between bochurim in the small hours of the night.
“Azharah chamurah — a grave warning,” screamed a large sign hung in the heichal of the Ohr Yisrael yeshivah in Petach Tikva, signed by the hanhalah.
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