Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has crossed a new red line in her relentless pursuit of Chareidim and her opposition to the government she was hired to represent by opposing an important clause regarding reserve duty in the 2026 budget law.

The clause, formulated by the IDF, the Finance Ministry, and the Defense Ministry, will end emergency reservist mobilization and restore reserve summons, limiting annual service to about 70 days per year.

Baharav-Miara claims that the clause is “unconstitutional” and violates the Supreme Court’s “equality of burden” ruling and therefore can only be legislated together with a new Chareidi draft law that guarantees “equal conscription.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich fired back at Baharav-Miara, saying that “with a political decision, she is harming the army, reservists, the state budget, and the entire economy—all without any authority.”

“There is not one serious legal scholar who says that the Knesset is not authorized to legislate a law to limit reserve duty,” he added. “According to her, we must continue with unlimited emergency call-up orders.”

“How does she dare to take unauthorized responsibility over the economy and security?”

(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)