Israel plunged toward a political crisis today after the largest party
in the government quit the governing coalition. Kadima Party, the more moderate member of
the coalition, voted to pull out of the government in a feud over granting
draft exemptions to ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students. Kadima is led by
Shaul Mofaz, a former IDF chief of general staff (he was born in Tehran in
1948), and will now join the opposition. The move might force Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call for early elections. In the meantime,
Israel will be led by a coalition with a narrow parliamentary majority dominated
by religious and nationalist hard-liners.
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