🪖Torah Basic Law, Bare-Minimum Majority

🪖Torah Basic Law, Bare-Minimum Majority The Knesset has begun second and third readings of Basic Law: Torah Study, with the coalition knocking down every reservation on a razor-thin majority of exactly 61 votes while Netanyahu skips the hall. When a wartime government enshrines Torah study as a Basic Law with the smallest possible majority and without its own prime minister on the floor, it sends a clear signal. Shielding draft dodgers is now important enough to rewrite Israel’s value…