As pressure intensifies from the chareidi factions demanding immediate progress on the draft law — and amid renewed threats to exit the coalition — Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Yuli Edelstein (Likud), met Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and assured him that efforts are underway to wrap up committee deliberations.
“I’m making every effort to complete the law and present it this week,” Edelstein told Netanyahu during their meeting, signaling an attempt to show concrete movement on what has become one of the most explosive issues in the current government.
The meeting comes as chareidi parties continue to press the government to deliver on its promises regarding yeshiva student exemptions from military service. The issue has become a political time bomb, threatening to destabilize the coalition if not resolved swiftly.
Despite Edelstein’s assurances, sources within the political system remain skeptical about Netanyahu’s intentions. Many believe the prime minister is seeking to buy time, hoping to reach the end of the Knesset’s summer session — set to conclude in exactly two weeks — with the chareidi parties still onboard the coalition.

{Matzav.com Israel}