“We are back again in a legal vacuum; from August there will be no legal basis for continuing the exemptions, but no-one can imagine sending the military police into the yeshivas and hauling off thousands of students to prison. Israel will, by then, be in the ecstasy of election season and the court will be forced to grant an extension. A new Knesset with a new coalition, with the Haredi parties once again holding the balance of power will be forced to perform an act of legal contortion, and vote through another version of the Tal Law that will somehow pass muster with judges. If that is at all possible.

It is too much to expect that this constitutional crisis will turn into an opportunity to once and for all reform the concept of national service for the ultra-Orthodox and Arab communities and allow them to claim their productive and gainful positions in society.”

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