Overview
- The draft formally recognizes Torah study, removes combat-role quotas, allows limited civil‑security service to count toward targets (capped at 10%), lowers the chareidi definition to two years of yeshiva study, and replaces biometric attendance tracking with audits.
- Financial sanctions on yeshiva budgets would kick in only if targets are missed after a year, while new draft evaders would face immediate personal penalties including loss of state benefits, a driver’s license ban until age 23, and travel limits until age 26.
- Bismuth’s committee presentation was postponed at Netanyahu’s request, with the debate pushed to next week for further review.
- Committee legal adviser Miri Frenkel‑Shor is preparing objections and has recommended raising the first‑year enlistment target to 5,760 recruits.
- Shas and Degel HaTorah back the outline, Agudas Yisroel and several Likud MKs oppose it, opposition leaders and reservist groups condemn it as an evasion law, and the IDF is expected to form an oversight committee to monitor implementation.