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.

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…

JERUSALEM: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday threatened to bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by backing a motion for early elections amid a row…