August 15

👉🏽 PM Netanyahu and Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin rumored to be stopping overhaul for a year to focus on haredi draft bill, says Times of Israel. TOI also reporting Kikar Shabbat’s news that haredi coalition members demand stopping overhaul unless there is consensus, worried that PM Netanyahu is deflecting blame to the haredi community. Israel Hayom reports unnamed government official saying Haredim are trying to take credit for the planned delay that is already underway.

👉🏽 Globes reporting that the shekel is at its weakest since 2018, and that home sales are down almost 50% from last year.

👉🏽 Arutz 7 and Maariv reporting that claims of military unpreparedness were designed to overthrow the government.

👉🏽 Update on the IDF

The military will begin to really feel the effect of the reservists’ protest in another two weeks, and a constitutional crisis or the passage of the Haredi draft exemption will worsen IDF readiness, military told PM Netanyahu, Kan reports.

Channel 12 reporting that PM Netanyahu was told by the defense establishment that announcing that further judicial reform would be advanced only by consensus had considered this approach, but it was opposed by Likud Justice Minister Yariv Levin.

Channel 13 reports that Netanyahu warned that info shared at this week’s Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will be leaked, apparently signaling that they should not provide the committee with the full picture.

The Hebrew media including Channel 12 is reporting that PM Netanyahu is willfully ignoring, rather than condemning, Coalition attacks on the military and statements about national security and unreadiness as a result of the judicial coup. Critics say that Netanyahu is attempting to pin the responsibility for what is happening on the IDF.

PM Netanyahu’s son, Yair Netanyahu, apparently posted on Facebook denigrating Chief of Staff HaLevi for not cracking down on the volunteer reservists.

10,000 volunteer reservists have said they can not serve in an undemocratic Israel, and after unreasonableness passed, will no longer show up for service.

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