Meretz MK breaks coalition discipline in protest of Negev unrest and 'racist and fascist' Citizenship Law; High Court demands government advance clear draft rules

Matan Kahana's reforms would bring ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce earlier, remake kashrut, bolster conversion - all according to halacha. Haredi leaders should be delighted

Age to drop from 24 to 21 but will gradually rise back to 23, in an attempt to encourage draft dodgers to leave the yeshiva and get jobs sooner

Ministers won't seek to lower the maximum age requiring exemption from 24 to 21, as it could raise legal difficulties, reports say

After failure to extend ban on Palestinian family reunification, and with Ra'am party rejecting another IDF-related law, legislation regulating exemptions in danger of expiring

Justices accept government request, opposed by Defense Minister Gantz, for further extension to pass legislation formally exempting Haredim from military service

In an apparent stunt, Gantz lets the order enabling ultra-Orthodox to avoid army service lapse, but expert says status quo likely to continue, because Knesset dissolved in December

Premier hopes to fully vaccinate the population, open the economy so 'the problem will be forgotten' as days tick on toward the March 23 election

Defense minister, who has been feuding with ultra-Orthodox parties, says he won't extend military exemption which ends next Monday

Dozens barricade themselves in Jerusalem yeshiva as police close it down for violating closure orders; man arrested with knife, pepper spray; riots also take place in Bnei Brak