Overview
- Degel HaTorah said Rabbis Dov Lando and Moshe Hillel Hirsch authorized MKs to present the draft bill to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, with final voting guidance to follow only after reviewing the full text.
- Shas’ Council of Torah Sages instructed party representatives to advance the legislation in committee under continuing rabbinic oversight throughout the process.
- Agudat Yisrael has not granted approval, and chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf said he has not seen the draft and will oppose any plan that includes sanctions or harms the status of yeshiva students.
- The Religious Zionist Party declared it will not back a bill it views as symbolic, and Likud figures directed committee chair Boaz Bismuth not to move the bill forward until there is final haredi sign-off.
- Protests outside haredi lawmakers’ homes intensified, including an assault on Shas MK Yoav Ben Tzur, as recordings of Rabbi Meir Zvi Bergman denouncing the proposal prompted a meeting with Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch with no details released.