Josie Delap
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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Both of them have become a lot less popular in recent years, and they've come together in an effort to boost their standing.
When you look at the polling of the opposition parties as a whole, at least at the moment, they tend to come out on top.
They win perhaps 66 votes in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, which would be enough to give them a ruling majority.
The problem is that this is a very diverse group of politicians.
They do not agree on a lot of things.
And so it's not enough for them to win enough seats to beat Netanyahu and his allies.
They also have to find some way of working together to form a governing coalition.
Well, you would think that the fact that Israel has been fighting wars for three years, arguably without achieving the victory that certainly Netanyahu has promised, would be at the forefront.
But ending the wars probably won't be the biggest thing.
question of the campaign, even though it's probably the most urgent issue facing Israel today.
One of the biggest issues that people are going to be talking about is the ultra-Orthodox, the Haredi communities in Israel.
And something that has become incredibly controversial in recent years is the fact that there is an exemption for the ultra-Orthodox when it comes to conscription.
which dates back to 1948 to the founding of Israel, which allows religious students to avoid serving in the army.
When that was first introduced, it applied to about 400 people.
Today, it applies to as many as 90,000 people.
And given that Israel has an army in which everybody serves, and it's one that has been fighting on multiple fronts for almost three years now, the fact that this group of people, who also receive a huge amount of funding from the government,
do not play a part in, as Israelis would see it, fighting to defend their country, has become incredibly controversial.
The ultra-Orthodox parties that are part of the current governing coalition are obviously very keen to keep this exemption, which the Supreme Court has previously ruled is unconstitutional.
And so the opposition parties are making a big part of their platform the fact that they will not allow this exemption to remain in place.
There is quite a lot of debate about domestic issues.
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