Netanyahu Coalition in Crisis Over Religious Draft as War Rages
- Court orders seminary funds to be cut if students don’t serve
- Ultra-Orthodox parties enraged and threaten to leave coalition
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A dramatic Israeli Supreme Court ruling that freezes funding to ultra-Orthodox seminaries unless their students serve in the military is forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to contend with its survival as the war in Gaza deepens the country’s political divisions.