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Early elections could be imposed on the coalition by a Supreme Court ruling in a case that, according to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, was reported to the ministers gathered Sunday in front of the cabinet, is doomed to failure, said political sources Tuesday.
The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the Supreme Court for a four-month extension of the controversial bill on the haredi (ultra-orthodox) bill. The court asked the government and Yesh Atid, who had filed the initial petition against the previous bill, to make their views known by Thursday.
Mandelblit told ministers that no further extension could be requested, as the government has already received a three-month extension in August to pbad a new law by Sunday, December 2. Netanyahu accepted Mandelblit's decision, but Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked persuaded the ministers to request the extension anyway.
Legal experts said the government's appeal had made the Sunday deadline superfluous. The experts noted that the expiry of this deadline would make the government a violation of the law if the yeshiva students were not recruited en mbade. However, the court can not force Netanyahu, who is also the defense minister, to abide by the law or to call an election to prevent it from being implemented.
The government invoked the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on November 16 to justify his request for an extension. But ministers and Likud deputies admitted in closed conversations that Netanyahu did not have a majority for the bill and could not pbad it.
Liberman said the court should not extend the time limit by one hour. He said that Netanyahu had a majority to adopt the bill immediately but would refrain from doing so, because of his interest in not irritating the haredim who oppose the law.
"Political survival does not warrant undermining the security of the state or the sensitivities of Israeli society," Liberman said.
Lapid stated that Netanyahu "once again surrenders Haredim and flees to the Supreme Court". He added that Liberman's resignation was not related to the bill. The current bill was adopted at first reading in July and sets annual targets for haredi enrollment, which increases every 10 years, as well as financial penalties that reduce the budget allocated to haredi yeshivot each year when the goals are met. enrollment are not achieved.
UTJ and Shas have strongly opposed the principle of sanctions, while the rabbis of Agudat Yisrael have strongly opposed a clause stating that the law would be automatically annulled if the enrollment targets are not achieved three years in a row.
The narrow coalition of 61 MPs will face another test related to religion and state issues on Wednesday when Meretz and Yesh Atid will introduce a bill on municipal rights to allow shops to remain open on Shabbat day. The bill has the support of several coalition members, who may have to vote against their conscience and oppose it.
Netanyahu has temporarily defused another problem in his security cabinet: having too many ministers. The security cabinet should not count more than half the number of ministers that make up the entire cabinet. The departure of Sofa and the Minister of Immigrant Absorption Liberman and former Minister of Immigrants has resulted in the government having one too many.
Netanyahu has decided that ministers Yuval Steinitz and Ze'ev Elkin would alternate monthly as voting members of the security cabinet and be observers last month.
Head of the Yesh Atid faction, Ofer Shelah, said the decision was a mockery of the security cabinet and that Elkin and Steinitz should not have accepted it.
Jeremy Sharon, Yonah Jeremy Bob and Lahav Harkov contributed to this report.
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