Calls for early elections intensify after Haredi leadership rejects Netanyahu coalition

On Wednesday Rabbi Dov Lando, the senior spiritual leader of the Haredi United Torah Judaism party’s Degel HaTorah faction, called for dissolving the Knesset.

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Religious party quits Netanyahu government over army exemptions

Israel’s United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party announced it is leaving both the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition on Monday night, intensifying a long-running dispute over the issue of army exemptions for full-time religious students. Read more

Netanyahu arrives at Knesset for vote despite doctor’s objections

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefly appeared in the Knesset plenum on Tuesday for a critical vote against doctors’ objections. Read more