Israel’s High Court of Justice concluded hearing appeals for fervently Orthodox yeshiva students to be drafted into the country’s armed forces. One justice questioned whether the court should decide the issue, noting that a bill calling for the drafting of yeshiva students was pending in the Knesset.
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