Huffington Post/AP – With just days left before a court-imposed deadline to reform Israel’s military draft law expires, the nation’s political leaders are at loggerheads on how to resolve what has become perhaps the country’s most pressing – and divisive – domestic issue.
The impasse over whether and how to scrap the mass exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews has already cost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his largest coalition partner. With no obvious compromise in sight ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline, the issue has the potential to trigger the government’s collapse and lead to snap elections.
Related posts:
NASA Unveils Orion Space Capsule for 2014 Test Launch
Brit Ammaz Qureshi facing extradition to Norway over death of baby
Research and Markets: Survey of Corporate Use of Twitter and Other Microblogging Services
Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised; Logs Keystrokes, Phones Home to Server in U...
Bush complicit in CIA war crimes
Scientists discover Pacific Ocean contains higher than normal levels of CAFFEINE