{"id":534813,"date":"2026-07-10T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534813\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:04:13","slug":"ultra-orthodox-fold-basic-law-torah-study-to-be-declarative-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/534813\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Orthodox fold \u2013 Basic Law: Torah Study to be declarative only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz reached an agreement with the ultra-Orthodox parties on Basic Law: Torah Study, under which the clause establishing &#8216;scales of justice&#8217; between Torah study and military service will be removed from the bill, making it declarative only. Factions of United Torah Judaism and Shas stated: &#8216;The prime minister and Likud requested to add additional clauses to the law that were not part of the original text, and it was made unequivocally clear that we do not agree to change its essence. If there is a desire to advance additional clauses, this can be done through other legislation. Therefore, it was agreed that the law will include only the first and central clause, which establishes that Torah study is a foundational value.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coalition Chairman Ofir Katz reached an agreement with the ultra-Orthodox parties on Basic Law: Torah Study, under which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-534813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534813","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=534813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}