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Israel’s Supreme Court suspended on Wednesday a contentious law passed just the previous day that would have blocked the arrest of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men who refuse military service.

The court said it was issuing a “temporary order suspending” the enforcement of the law after opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman and others petitioned against the legislation.

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