Netanyahu asks the Supreme Court for an additional month to approve the conscription law. Israel is experiencing a severe political crisis due to the conscript law.
While the religious parties oppose compromising the principle of exempting religious people from military service, ministers, including War Council member Benny Gantz, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and opposition leader Yair Lapid are demanding an end to this exemption. Army leaders had informed the Israeli Defense Minister that they needed to recruit about 20,000 additional soldiers so that the army could carry out routine tasks.