Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot said Sunday that any law passed contrary to the national interest — including the recently approved Basic Law: Torah Study — will be repealed by the government he intends to establish. The statement escalates opposition pressure on the coalition over the contentious conscription exemption law.
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot vowed Sunday that any law passed contrary to the national interest — including the Basic Law: Torah Study recently approved by the Knesset — will be repealed by a government he leads. The statement, posted on his social media channels, directly targets the coalition's flagship legislation, which grants broad exemptions from military service to yeshiva students.
Eisenkot has previously called for immediate Knesset dissolution over the issue, as The Zioneer reported on June 28. Opposition leader Naftali Bennett also pledged on July 1 to cancel the law upon forming a new government, describing it as a political gimmick at the expense of security. The conscription-exemption debate has become a central fault line in Israeli politics, with the coalition defending the law as protecting Torah study and the opposition arguing it harms national security and social cohesion.
The political fate of the law remains uncertain. The coalition has a narrow majority, and defections or early elections could alter the legislative landscape. Eisenkot's latest statement signals that the opposition intends to make the law a key campaign issue in any upcoming election.
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