(The Shas party pulls it's members from the government in order to appear like they oppose Netanyahu on this matter while keeping aligned with his very narrow coalition... so he doesn't lose power and Shas constituents get drafted and have to go to war anyway. Nice moral code they got there.)
from The Straits Times (H/T T)
A second ultra-Orthodox party quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet on July 16, but said it would remain within his coalition for now, giving the government more time to resolve a thorny dispute over military conscription.
A day earlier, the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party abandoned the coalition over the deeply divisive issue, leaving Mr Netanyahu with just a one-seat majority in Parliament.
But rather than follow suit, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party said on July 16 it would just pull its ministers from government ranks while continuing to back the coalition in Parliament...
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