The law includes only one clause: 'Torah study is a foundational value in the heritage of the Jewish people and in the State of Israel.' A clause equating yeshiva students with military personnel was removed for fear of harm to IDF soldiers

What’s really happening is a payoff to the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) political parties, against the will of an overwhelming majority of Israelis and in direct defiance of the…

This law means by “Torah study” includes only haredi students at haredi yeshivas who are engaged almost exclusively with religious issues, and most of whom have very little, if…