Is the Draft Bill Being Used to Prevent Judicial Reform?

On December 1, 2025 Arutz 7 reported

"Opposition leader MK Yair Lapid sparked a political storm on Sunday evening with remarks about a bill his party intends to submit, under which voting rights would be revoked from those who do not enlist in the IDF, while the law would not apply to the Arab public.

"...In response, the Shas party sharply attacked the Yesh Atid chairman, stating: “Yair Lapid, who hastened to clarify that he did not intend to revoke voting rights from Arabs but only from haredim, revealed his true face and the depth of his hatred toward Jews who observe Torah and mitzvot. According to Lapid, Jews who love the land, study Torah, and pray daily for the safety of IDF soldiers are worth less than Arabs, some of whom support Palestinian terror. Shameful and disgraceful...”

Lapid's attempt to remove voting rights from the Haredim is revealing, it shows that the draft law is not only about increasing recruitment for the IDF, the secular left is desperate to keep power in a country in which the religious right population is growing and gaining strength and the secular socialist left is loosing power.

In this context a question should be asked: Is one of the reasons why the left is trying to pass the draft law to harass the haredim forcing them to self-deport (reverse aliya) to reduce the share of the Haredim in the population? Is the draft law in part to dissuade more haredim from doing alya?

The left despises the Haredim and have little use for talmudic scholars in the army, is it possible that the draft bill is being used also to divide the right and distract the public from the Coup D’état they did to prevent Judicial Reform?

On November 15, 2024 David Israel wrote in the Jewish Press "Coup D’état: Israel’s Judicial System Plotting Netanyahu’s Ouster...

"In early February 2023, when the civil war over judicial reform was at its height, the High Court of Justice ordered Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara and Netanyahu to respond to the petition of the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, which demanded that Netanyahu be declared incapacitated for his involvement in the judicial reform...

" And that, folks, is how a judicial Coup D’état happens in Israel. The good government folks didn’t come up with the idea on their own. The move was clearly manufactured by the AG. Earlier in February 2023, Baharav-Miara ordered Netanyahu to refrain from interfering with changes in the judicial system due to his conflict of interest because of his trial. This was based on the 11-0 High Court decision to allow Netanyahu to run for the Knesset and become prime minister as long as he did not engage in issues having to do with his corruption trial. Of course, the trial itself is based on a plot hatched by the Israel Police, the state prosecution, and then-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, pushing accusations that are being exposed every week as shoddy, and involving unethical pressure on individuals to appear as state witnesses or lose everything.

"The AG sent the PM a letter “regarding the implementation of the opinion for the prevention of conflict of interest prepared for him during his previous term of office, concerning initiatives for changes in the judicial system.” The trap was set.

"Almost two years have passed, Israel endured its most devastating existential attacks on two fronts, Netanyahu proved to be a tough and resolute military leader – but the coup d’état continued in the background of all this drama, aimed at catching the PM walking into a conflict of interest.

"The coalition took defensive action, and in March 2023 pushed an amendment to the incapacity clause stating that the Prime Minister can only be declared incapacitated on the basis of physical or mental incapacity.

"Naturally, shortly thereafter, the High Court revoked this amendment. As far as the justices were concerned, “incapacity” was anything they could grab onto in a decision to reverse the electoral choice of some two million voters.

"...These are the pillars of Israel’s historic aristocracy, and they’re not about to let the multitudes govern their country, never mind their bigger vote base. Much like France’s royal dynasty, the Bourbons, Israel’s ruling families didn’t learn anything and didn’t forget anything. May God remove their yoke from our necks and their boots from our backs..."

Shmuel Sakett wrote in Arutz 7 "...Most people simply have no clue as to how much power Israel’s Supreme Court has! There is literally no example of this anywhere in the world! In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, Netanyahu said the following; “Israel’s Supreme Court can nullify any decision of the Knesset, can nullify any appointment of the government, can intervene in military matters, can intervene in the fight against terror and can even try to stop the government from taking gas out of the sea… a project that will bring billions of dollars into the economy!” He stressed over and over that there is no democracy in the world that gives the judiciary this kind of absolute power..."

On February 26, 2025 Dr Gadi Taub wrote in Arutz 7 " The extent to which Israel is ruled by unelected officials is difficult to convey to outsiders... democracy itself has already been officially declared null and void. Under a heavy cloud of judicial-sounding terms, Israel’s Supreme Court judges have removed sovereignty itself, that is, the power of final decision over the whole realm of law and politics, from the elected branches of government and transferred it to themselves..."

Ezequiel Doiny is author of “Jerusalem is the Spiritual capital of Judaism while Mecca is the Spiritual Capital of Islam”