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📰 War Budget, No Draft: How God’s Parties Just Saved Bibi Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties are quietly climbing down from their sacred ultimatum: no draft exemption law, no state budget. Now, under the cover of war, Degel HaTorah’s rabbis have told their MKs to back the 2026 budget even if the conscription dodge isn’t legally locked in. In a system built on extortion, the professional extortionists just blinked. The stakes are simple: no budget by the end of the month, the government falls and elections follow. For years, Shas and Degel HaTorah swore they’d bring the house down before letting tens of thousands of yeshiva students face the draft; now, with a war burning and soldiers exhausted, they suddenly discover “national responsibility.” Translation: better a flawed budget today than risk a different coalition tomorrow. This isn’t a morality play, it’s a swap. The Haredi leadership knows that any new draft law is likely to be toothless, legally shaky, and eventually gutted by the High Court. So they take the money and time now, bet on legal chaos later, and hope that by the time the justices rule, everyone is too tired, too broke, or too dead to enforce anything on thousands of “deserters.” Netanyahu, for his part, gets exactly what he needs: a budget that keeps him in office through war, with his most loyal partners back on board and their rage theatrically redirected at the courts and “leftist elites.” The soldiers keep serving, the Haredi draft problem stays unsolved, and the crisis over “sharing the burden” is converted into one more overdraft on Israel’s future. In this arrangement, the war is not the reason to fix the inequality — it’s the excuse not to. #israel#budget#haredim#draft#netanyahu#war#oligarchy#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸