Netanyahu backs away from 5-year Tal Law extension

19.01.2012                      24.Tewet. 5772

Innenpolitik:

Netanyahu backs away from 5-year Tal Law extension

Turn around appears to be a result of pressure from coalition partners; Plesner calls for new legislation.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he would discuss with his coalition partners the appropriate length of time by which to extend the Tal Law, which is aimed at increasing ultra-Orthodox enlistment in the IDF, and then bring the decision for government approval.
On Sunday, Netanyahu told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the law would be extended for five years….