Overview
- Degel HaTorah, which announced Monday it will vote to dissolve the Knesset, plans to back a preliminary reading set for Wednesday, May 20.
- Netanyahu warned Haredi leaders that dissolving now could harm military readiness and potential action against Iran, even as he lets the first dissolution vote proceed and moves to restart committee work on the draft bill.
- Rabbi Dov Landau reaffirmed his directive that Degel HaTorah MKs support dissolution, highlighting how rabbinic rulings are driving Haredi party decisions over coalition bargaining.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he will only support a conscription framework that requires anyone not in full-time Torah study to enlist, and he urged Haredi partners not to bring down the government.
- Shas and United Torah Judaism weighed backing opposition-crafted dissolution bills to block a last‑minute coalition retreat, while parties jockeyed over election timing in September or October.