Overview
- Degel HaTorah, which received a Tuesday order from Rabbi Dov Lando to push dissolution and declared no trust in Benjamin Netanyahu, set off a break over a stalled draft law that exempts many ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service.
- Coalition chairman Ofir Katz filed a bill on Wednesday to dissolve the 25th Knesset, with a preliminary vote expected and an aim to keep the coalition in charge of setting the election timetable.
- The opposition moved in parallel by filing its own dissolution bill for debate next week and by pulling all its bills from the agenda to show the coalition lacks a working majority.
- Shas said it backs advancing dissolution but struck a softer tone than Degel HaTorah, pressing for progress on the draft law while signaling it is not severing ties with Netanyahu’s right-leaning bloc.
- Parties are already weighing September or October election dates, and once a dissolution bill passes an initial vote, the Knesset Committee would set when Israelis go to the polls.