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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed on Sunday that the new IDF bill
was at the top of the coalition's agenda.
Speaking at a meeting of Likud ministers, the Prime Minister expressed his hope for both the IDF draft law and the controversial project of nationality
can be adopted in the current session of the Knesset.
"We will have a meeting with the coalition leaders today about the bill," he said. "We will try to fix the circle and put an end to it as soon as possible, it is the main effort."
Prime Minister Netanyahu (Photo: Gil Yohanan)
The Bill, which had its first reading
to the Knesset last week, includes planned cuts in yeshivot budgets and the use of economic incentives to put pressure on Torah study institutions to encourage enlistment, but no criminal penalties.
The enrollment goals, as stated in the proposal, are that 3,000 yeshiva students will be recruited in the first stage and 600 will be volunteers for the national service. These quotas are almost identical to the existing enlistment quotas that currently exist.
The plan will come with an adjustment period of two years, during which sanctions will not be imposed if the yeshivot fail to meet the preliminary rates. The third year yeshivot who do not encourage enlistment will be hit with economic sanctions if they fall below a target of 95%.
The proposed law on nationality, sponsored among others by MP Avi Dichter (Likud), aims to anchor in law the status of the state of Israel as a nation state of the Jewish people.
This legally includes the democratic character of Israel, its state symbols, Jerusalem as the capital, Hebrew as the official language and the right of return for the Jewish community of the Diaspora.
Prior to the Cabinet meeting, the Ministerial Committee of Holy Places discussed the plan of the Western Wall's Egalitarian Prayer Zone with Prime Minister, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and a representative of the Authority of Antiquities. presence.
The committee was supposed to approve the start of work to enlarge the current mixed prayer area at Robinson's Arch, but no vote was held at the end of the meeting.
Religious Services Minister David Azoulay resigned from the committee on Sunday, stating that he acted according to the instructions of Shas' spiritual leader, Rabbi Shalom Cohen.
He said that he can not lend a hand to the construction of a "Wall of Western Reformed", which harms the sanctity of the holy place.
Azoulay is the third to leave the committee after her chair, Minister of Culture Miri Regev and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
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