29.01.2012                      05.Schwat. 5772

Innenpolitik:

Defense minister proposes revised Tal Law

Demonstration continues at central train station against law that gives yeshiva students different conditions for army service.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak called for a new law to replace the controversial Tal Law, and new provisions that would provide free higher education to those who serve in the IDF.
Barak said that the government should extend the Tal Law should only by one year, as opposed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's proposition to extend it five years, in order to allot a period of time in which to revise the law….