Source: JTA, 8-9-12
The Israeli military has begun drafting haredi Orthodox 18-year-olds without encountering significant protests one week after a new law requiring haredi military service took effect….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on August 9, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/israel-political-brief-august-9-2012-israeli-military-begins-drafting-haredi-orthodox/
Source: JTA, 7-18-12
Israeli lawmakers voted down a bill that would have required all Israelis to enlist in the army or perform national service at the age of 18, including the haredi Orthodox and Arabs….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 18, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/israel-political-brief-july-18-2012-israeli-knesset-rejects-proposed-universal-military-draft-law/
Source: JTA, 7-17-12
For the second time in just two months, the Israeli political universe was upended when Shaul Mofaz’s Kadima Party voted to quit Israel’s governing coalition.
Kadima’s departure, the result of a breakdown in negotiations over reforming Israel’s military draft law to include haredi Orthodox Jews, shatters the 94-seat super-majority that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu controlled in the 120-seat Knesset.
It also raises questions for the future of Kadima, Israel’s draft and the timing of new elections….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
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Following is an excerpt from the letter that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to Shaul Mofaz:
“I regret your decision to give up on an opportunity to make an historic change. After 64 years, we were very close to a substantial change in the division of the burden. I gave you a proposal that would have led to the conscription of ultra-orthodox and Arabs from the age of 18. I explained to you that the only way to implement this on the ground is gradually and without tearing Israeli society apart, especially at a time when the State of Israel is facing many significant challenges. I will continue to work toward the responsible solution that Israeli society expects.”
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/israel-political-brief-july-17-2012-excerpt-from-pm-benjamin-netanyahus-letter-to-shaul-mofaz-on-kadimas-vote-to-exit-unity-coalition-government/
Source: JTA, 7-17-12
The Kadima Party voted to quit Israel’s government coalition….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/israel-political-brief-july-17-2012-kadima-party-votes-to-quit-israeli-goverment-coalition/
The national unity coalition born nine weeks ago is dead, but the government lives with a solid majority of 65 Knesset Members, as it did before Kadima left the Opposition.
Party chairman Shaul Mofaz announced Tuesday evening that the party faction voted 24-3 to pull out of the coalition because of what he said was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s failure to live up a supposed agreement on changes in the draft law.
Although the concept of universal draft is the ostensible issue, Mofaz has used it is a ploy to try to boost his weakened party, but his see-saw political maneuvers may leave him as the loser. Likud officials received his announcement with comments of “goodbye and we will not meet again.”…READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 17, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/israel-political-brief-july-17-2012-shaul-mofaz-surrenders-unity-coalition-lasted-10-weeks-kadima-leaves-coalition-government/
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz met on Wednesday evening in an attempt to find a solution to the crisis created by the failure to find a mutually acceptable new draft law.
Channel 10 News reported that the meeting ended without significant progress and the two agreed that Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner would meet again on Thursday in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 12, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/israel-political-brief-july-12-2012-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-shaul-mofaz-meet-talk-about-haredi-military-draft-law/
Finger pointing dominated the domestic agenda in Jerusalem on Wednesday as an ad-hoc Likud-Kadima working group failed to find a mutually acceptable alternative to the controverisal Tal Law….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 11, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/israel-political-brief-july-11-2012-finger-pointing-erupts-amid-plesner-yaalon-failure-with-new-haredi-military-draft-law/
Source: JTA, 7-8-12
Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz will be part of the three-member team to write an Israeli law on equality in military and national service.
Mofaz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the team, which was announced Sunday. The team will formulate the law on haredi Orthodox military service based on recommendations of the Plesner committee, which Netanyahu dissolved less than a week ago citing the number of members who quit. The committee issued its preliminary findings despite the dissolution….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 8, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/israel-political-brief-july-8-2012-deputy-pm-shaul-mofaz-head-of-team-appointed-to-write-new-military-draft-law-in-israel/
Source: JTA, 7-6-12
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has ordered the formulation of two teams to examine universal draft alternatives….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 6, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/israel-political-brief-july-6-2012-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-wants-two-teams-to-examine-universal-draft-alternatives/
Source: JTA, 7-5-12
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Kadima Party head Shaul Mofaz to head off a political crisis over a new haredi draft law….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on July 5, 2012
http://togetherwithisrael.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/israel-political-brief-july-5-2012-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-deputy-pm-shaul-mofaz-mmeet-over-haredi-draft-law/
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