The government counts on the judges in Jerusalem to strike down their laws

The temporary amendment would have halted arrests, investigations, and other enforcement proceedings against qualifying ultra-Orthodox (haredi) yeshiva students who failed to report for military service. It did not exempt them from the draft; their legal obligation to serve remained, the state would simply have been prevented from enforcing it. The law never took effect. Justice Ofer Grosskopf froze it the day after it passed, pending the petitions that produced Thursday's judgment. The Knesset's legal team eventually told the High Court that the legislative process was fundamentally defective. Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara opposed the law on both procedural and constitutional grounds. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir warned that it would encourage noncompliance and was 'clearly and unequivocally inconsistent' with the military's needs. The law failed, and Shas immediately called the justices 'the greatest generators of chaos in the country,' accused them of trampling democracy, and claimed that they were intervening in the election on behalf of the Left.