Overview

• The preliminary vote fell 61–53 against the opposition’s motion to dissolve the Knesset in its first reading.
• Parliamentary rules bar the opposition from bringing another dissolution proposal for at least six months.
• Youri Edelstein announced that government and ultra-Orthodox factions agreed on the basic framework of a new conscription bill.
• Shas and United Torah Judaism parties had threatened to withdraw from the coalition if their military exemption demands were not met.
• An Israel Hayom poll in March found that 85% of Jewish Israelis support changing the law to include ultra-Orthodox men in military or national service.