The Israeli Parliament rejected this short majority on Thursday, June 12, a bill by bill presented by the opposition aimed at its dissolution, which could have led to the early elections.
A total of 61 in the 120 deputies in the KNESET voted against the text, and 53 for, in preliminary reading.
All opposition parties had presented the project, while most seemed disrupted on the thorny issue of recruitment of ultra -orthodox Jews.
Six months of waiting to try to dissolve the Knéset
They have benefited for decades of an exemption increasingly accepted by Israeli society, while the country has been at war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the attack launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7, 2023.
The opposition hoped to knock down the government, one of the correct ones in the history of Israel, gathering the allies of the ultra -orthodox parties of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had threatened to let him go.
After this fault, the opposition will have to wait six months to try to dissolve the Knéset.
Benjamin Netanyahu must compose with a strip of his party, Likoud (right), which promotes a law destined to enlist more ultra -orthodox and harden the sanctions against the rebels, a true Casus Belli for the parties that represent the “Haredim” (“that fear God” in Hebrew) and require a law that sustainable soldiers.
The two ultra -orthodox of the majority, Shass (Sepharades) and the unified Judaism of the Torah (JUT, Ashkénazes), had publicly declared that they would support a solution. But, according to some observers, the head of Shass, Aryeh Deri, at the same time negotiated a commitment behind the scene.
Call “ultra -orthodox brothers” to serve in the army
The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich (extreme right), said during the plenary session of the Knéset that leading the government to fall into times of war would constitute an “existential danger” for Israel.
“History will not forgive anyone to lead to the state of Israel in the elections in times of war,” he said.
He also appealed to the “ultra -orthodox brothers” to serve in the army. It is “an existential, national and security need” that must be achieved “while preserving the government,” he added.
Trained in December 2022, the Benjamin Netanyahu government is due to an alliance between its party, Likoud formations, far and the ultra -orthodox Jewish parties, whose beginning would mean the end of the government.
According to a survey published on the right, the Israel Diario Hayom in March, 85% of Israeli Jews support a change in the law in the Recruitment of Haredim, including 41% in favor of a law that really makes military service mandatory (32 months for men) for all who do it.
Source: BFM TV
