Netyahu loses its majority in Parliament. Israel’s Minister of Religious Affairs, Michael Malchieli, has confirmed on Wednesday the departure of the Ultraortodox party SHAS of the coalition government led by Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, due to the dispute over the mandatory military service for the Haredy students of the ‘Yeshiva’ —Centro of Jewish studies.
The agency with the highest authority in SHAS, the so -called Torah Sages Council, has determined that after the “Draconian demands” of the President of the Foreign and Defense Commission, Yuli Edelstein, and their breach of the agreement, the members of the party will resign “immediately” of their positions.
In this sense, he has indicated that “In the current situation it is not possible to be part of the government”, Although he has expressed that he will not collaborate with the opposition to knock the government, according to a statement read by Malchieli and collected by the Israeli media.
This occurs after on the eve the united Judaism party of the Torah also left the Executive in protest of the violation of the agreement signed in June between Edelstein and the ultra -orthodox parties, which avoided the dissolution of the Parliament and promised more lax conditions for recruitment to the highs.
Once the departure of Shas is effective, the Netanyahu government – which now has 60 seats – It will be in the minority, with only 49 seats after losing the eleven seats of the party, which is the third parliamentary force in Knesset.
