The legal adviser to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Miri Frenkel-Shor, is demanding harsher sanctions on Chareidi “draft dodgers” as part of the new conscription law being advanced by committee chairman MK Boaz Bismuth.

In a letter she sent to members of the committee on Sunday morning, she demanded that the committee include new and stricter sanctions and that economic sanctions, such as the revocation of daycare subsidies, should not be lifted at the age of 26.

She wants the committee to consider adding a sanction that would revoke municipal tax discounts for “draft dodgers” and also revoke driver’s licenses even from Chareidim who obtained them before the law’s enactment.

She is also demanding that sanctions be implemented in the first year after enactment, and not only after a year and a half, as the current law stipulates.

A senior Charedi figure told Kikar HaShabbat on Sunday morning, “As time passes, it is clear to everyone that the Knesset’s legal adviser is not supporting us, opposes all the central clauses in the draft law, and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara won’t defend the law to the Supreme Court. The law won’t withstand the Supreme Court’s review. We’re at a dead end. That’s the truth.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)