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Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says Netanyahu’s government is dragging the country into an economic and social disaster, Al Jazeera reports.
As before the October 7 disaster, the government ignores all the warnings of the professionals, he said in a post on X.
“I call on the ministers in the cabinet to oppose the law on military service exemption, otherwise this disaster will be on their conscience,” he added.
The bill, favoured by Netanyahu, would increase the exemption age for ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews from military service to 35 — up from 26.
It would also ensure that Haredi men who failed to enlist would not face criminal sanctions.
