Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seemingly go to great extremes to keep his ragtag coalition together, even by weakening the security capabilities of the country he leads.
Here’s why. If Israel’s annual state budget is not approved by the end of March at the close of the fiscal year, the Knesset will automatically dissolve, and elections will be called. Coalition partner Shas has warned it will not vote in favor of the budget unless the highly controversial haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft law introduced by Likud’s Boaz Bismuth is passed into law.
The IDF has warned of a workforce shortage and has urgently called for mor
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