{"id":517271,"date":"2026-06-29T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517271\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:26:08","slug":"israel-cant-afford-more-deals-with-the-ultra-orthodox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/517271\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Can&#8217;t Afford More Deals With the ultra-Orthodox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">Military exemptions are only one part of the ultra-Orthodox political project. The real goal is to preserve privileges, expand religious control over public life and make everyone else bear the burden<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">When two con artists sit down and make a political deal with each other, it&#8217;s hard to know what the real goal is. And if we&#8217;re talking about two arch-con men like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas Chairman Arye Dery, it&#8217;s not even worth trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military exemptions are only one part of the ultra-Orthodox political project. The real goal is to preserve privileges,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,11071,85,46,954,43,62534,12185],"class_list":["post-517271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-haredim","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics","tag-news","tag-shas","tag-ultra-orthodox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}