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Arye Deri, the head of the Sephardi Orthodox Shas party and the nation’s interior minister, slammed the ruling, saying the decision “again proves the serious disconnect between the Supreme Court and the Jewish people, who have known through all generations that what holds us together against persecution and decrees was Torah study.”

The legislation was an amendment to the Equal Service Law, which superseded and weakened a law supported by Yesh Atid that would have required more haredi Orthodox men to do their mandatory military service. United Torah Judaism chairman and Health Minister, Ya’acov Litzman, said the decision was “the worst and most wretched decision in the history of terrible decisions in the Jewish world.” He added the judges were “harming the most cherished aspect of haredi Judaism, which is the holy yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession,”according to the Jerusalem Post. That’s why we are in politics.”

Mr. Netanyahu, he added, could not continue to wriggle out of making a decision. Lapid, now in the opposition, also criticised Netanyahu, saying the prime minister could not continue to avoid the issue and that "conscription is for everyone, not just for the suckers who don't have a party in the coalition." JERUSALEM — Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a 2015 law that granted exemptions from military service to ultra-Orthodox men, in a move that could re-ignite long-standing tensions between Israel's politically powerful ultra-Orthodox community and the secular Jewish majority. The haredi exemptions had been a condition of Shas and the United Torah Judaism party when they agreed to join the government coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud party following national elections in 2015.
The Supreme Court of Israel strikes down the exemption on the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews.