Overview
- Israeli outlets report that Moti Babchik met with conservative rabbis to discuss forming a new Haredi party that is being called “Black Ink.”
- The initiative’s stated core demand is to oppose drafting yeshiva students and to reinstate deferments that allow full‑time Torah study without military sanctions.
- Organizers say they intend rabbis and roshei yeshiva to lead the movement and to appear on the candidate list rather than veteran politicians.
- Backers cite private polling they say shows tens of thousands of potential supporters, including younger Haredim, but there is no formal party registration or confirmed candidate list and other sources question its electoral strength.
- The development builds on a long, fraught national debate over Haredi conscription and, if the list runs, could pull votes from Shas and United Torah Judaism or reshape negotiations over exemptions.