Defense Ministry backs 90-freeze on haredi draft evader arrests as Israel faces coalition crisis

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday called to advance a proposal that would temporarily freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders, as he urged Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chair Boaz Bismuth (Likud) in a letter to convene an urgent meeting to discuss the matter.

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