Haredi conscription, not Benny Gantz, may topple government

Although Gantz's quitting the government failed to bring about its collapse, the festering issue of haredi exemptions from military conscription may ultimately do the trick.

National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz left the government on Sunday evening in a long-expected and anticlimactic move that politically altered little.

Gantz made clear from the first day he joined the government on October 11 that this was not a marriage of choice but, rather, a necessity born of Hamas’s barbarous attack...