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Tensions were high in the Knesset ahead of the midnight vote to advance an old on Monday as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was reportedly set to oppose the continuity procedure and his Likud Party. Discussions in Knesset committees, faction meeting statements, and in no-confidence debates in the plenum focused not only on the debate over the vote to utilize the Rule of Continuity to renew parliamentary readings for the January 2022 security service law amendment to integrate yeshiva students, but also veered into the topic of Minister-without-portfolio and challenges against the existence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government. With the government facing a March High Court interim order over military exemption for ultra-orthodox men in the wake of the April legislation deadline and a July 2023 draft law expiration, the coalition sought to revive a 2022 Haredi draft bill that would establish recruitment quotas, changes in exemption ages, and alternative service avenues.

The Rule of Continuity procedure allows for the advancement of a bill that had been previously been approved in plenum readings but abandoned by the Knesset's dissolution. Opposition leader Yair Lapid attacked the government for pushing the law introduced during his shared administration with then-alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett, noting that ultra-orthodox party members like Degel HaTorah leader Moshe Gafni had previously voted against the legislation. Lapid contended that political.



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