Overview

• The Knesset House Committee voted 9–7 to remove MK Yuli Edelstein as chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and installed MK Boaz Bismuth in his place.
• Knesset legal adviser Sagit Afik warned that the abrupt leadership change could undermine the integrity of the legislative process and stall the conscription bill.
• ited ToTorah Judaism’s MK Yitzchak Goldknopf accused the government of breaking coalition commitments and pressed to preserve exemptions for full-time yeshiva students.
• Hours before his ouster, Edelstein circulated his own draft proposal that would impose sanctions on draft evaders and set haredi enlistment quotas.
• With the draft law’s future in limbo, analysts warn of deepening divisions between coalition partners and the ultra-Orthodox community over national service.