After surviving the justice reform protests and a devastating war, will Netanyahu’s coalition be brought down by the draft law crisis?
At the start of the war, when there was talk of his joining the emergency government and returning to the right-wing bloc, Lieberman sounded conciliatory, even accepting guided tours at several chareidi chesed organizations. At one of these, he appeared to walk back his infamous comment about carting the chareidim to the garbage dump in wheelbarrows, which had aged like milk.
Today, the wheelbarrows are back, and the chareidi parties are closer than ever to the political dustbin. In Lieberman’s view, there’s no room for compromise. With 12,000 soldiers taken out of action by the war, no interim legislation exempting tens of thousands of chareidim from the draft will survive the court of public opinion.
What will the next election campaign look like, in the event that the chareidim finally follow through on their threat, and the bill to dissolve the Knesset passes its second and third readings?
No one is better placed to answer that question than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who lives on a steady diet of opinion polls and political analysis.
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