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governments to step up their response. "Strongly worded letters are not what we need right now. We need more action." [](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/g-s1-121631/israel-military-ultra-orthodox-netanyahu-coalition) ### [Middle East conflict](https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis) ### [Israel's government is expected to collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/g-s1-121631/israel-military-ultra-orthodox-netanyahu-coalition)
government to finally break the deadlock and begin actively conscripting ultra-Orthodox men. In response, the military issued tens of thousands of draft notices to Haredi Jews, but compliance has remained minimal. According to [testimony
responses within this legal-religious understanding. However, reading much of a strategy into the protesters’ or parties’ aims was going too far, he added. “Haredi politics is largely reactive rather than strategic,” Brown said, with