Israeli PM Netanyahu's fragile ruling coalition is dependent on two ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups, who oppose conscriptions in the military. While public opinion has favoured an end to the exemptions amid conflict with Hamas and Hezbollah, it could destabilise the coalition.
Netanyahu's cabinet has faced widespread criticism over the security failure of the Hamas attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage in Gaza.
The decades-old controversy has become especially sensitive as Israel's armed forces, made up mostly of teenage conscripts and older civilians mobilised for reserve duty, wage a nearly six-month-old war in Gaza to try to eliminate the Islamist Hamas movement that rules the Palestinian enclave.
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