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The significant growth of the ultra-Orthodox population since then has made the exemption a hugely divisive issue to Israeli society. Some 66,000 enlistment age men currently study in seminaries.

Parties such as United Torah Judaism and Shas had threatened to pull support from the Netanyahu coalition over the divisive decision to conscript members of their ultra-orthodox communities.