Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military, a decree that has the potential to divide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition. Netanyahu's government relies on two ultra-Orthodox parties that regard conscription exemptions as key to keeping their constituents in religious seminaries and away from a melting-pot military that might test their conservative customs. "At the height of a difficult war, the burden of inequality is more than ever acute," the court's unanimous ruling said. Most Jewish Israelis are bound by law to serve in the military from the...
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