Overview
- Party MKs held a closed-door session with a broad forum of leading rabbis to assess the draft framework and its consequences.
- Rabbis at the meeting urged the faction to insist on significant changes rather than endorse the bill as written.
- Party chairman Bezalel Smotrich accepted the rabbis’ guidance and committed to pursue revisions to the proposal.
- The party issued a clarification that no practical decision has been made and that it is formulating demands and conditions for support.
- Participants raised concerns that the current bill may not yield real enlistment gains and could strain trust over commitments to Hesder yeshivas.