August 11

👉🏽 With the haredi parties threatening to leave the government if the haredi draft exemption bill is not passed, the Coalition is prioritizing passing that law immediately following the summer break, even before the judicial selection committee bill, Kan reports. The new bill will lower the draft exemption age for Haredim from 26 to 22.

👉🏽 Im Tirzu announced a protest against the court’s potentially striking down of Basic Laws, held outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut’s home in Tel Aviv last night.

👉🏽 Channel 12 reports on a correspondence fight between Likud Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Otzma Yehudit National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, over Ben Gvir’s proposed private militia, to which Gallant is vehemently opposed. The force will report directly to Ben Gvir, bypassing customary police command. Ben Gvir apparently retorted that Gallant should mind his own business.

👉🏽 Kohelet think tank distributed a pro-reform, critique of the judicial system book, to dozens of Israeli judges, according to Haaretz. Kohelet is the legal advisor to Religious Zionism’s Simcha Rothman. Kohelet’s funding was recently discontinued by US billionaire donor Arthur Dantchik.

👉🏽 Attorney General Gali Beharev-Miara recommended against the pilot for separate swimming hours proposed by Likud Minister of Environmental Protection Idit Silman, saying Nature and Parks doesn’t have the authority to violate equality and enforce gender segregation; that is a matter for the courts. The context, of course, is the current government’s favoritism of halachic Jewish issues. (Maariv)

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