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.

Too many signs indicate that the "big" political crisis is no more than an old ultra-Orthodox trick. They are yet again selling us the notion of a terrible cataclysm, with cries…

Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that an agreement can be reached with the ultra-Orthodox parties over military conscription legislation…