Overview
- Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara formally notified the Finance Ministry that she opposes adding the reserve-duty change to the 2026 budget law on constitutional grounds.
- The proposed clause would replace emergency call-ups with a regulated summons system that caps annual reserve service at about 70 days.
- Her position ties any reserve-duty reform to a new law drafting ultra-Orthodox men in a way that meets the Supreme Court’s equality-of-burden standard.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich denounced the move as unauthorized and harmful to security and the economy, while Minister Gideon Sa’ar issued a separate sharp attack over a related Supreme Court matter.
- Budget talks feature disputed costs for tens of thousands of reservists, with the National Security Council reviewing figures that could shape required service days.