A senior United Torah Judaism official responded to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks regarding the failure of the arrest exemption for draft dodgers, telling Ynet that “for four years Netanyahu did not keep his commitment to pass the conscription law, the apple of the ultra-Orthodox public’s eye, and preferred to divide the nation around the judicial overhaul instead of passing the law. Now he understands that in any case we cannot sit in a government that returns to exactly the same point where it is today. We would prefer to sit in the opposition and let others pass a law that Netanyahu is incapable of passing.”
