Despite the desperate efforts to reach agreements on a new conscription bill – including the issue of setting deadlines for imposing sanctions on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, which effectively means delaying and making them disappear – the governing coalition's activity over the past day has increasingly moved away from substance in favor of preventing the ultra-Orthodox parties from voting for a bill to dissolve the Knesset.

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