Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Yuli Edelstein said at the Local Government Conference that "it's time to expose the truth behind ultra-Orthodox refusal - for a year they haven't come up with any concrete proposal for the draft law. When it came to the moment of truth, they gave different excuses each time." He emphasized again that "this is not the time to bring down the right-wing government. Tell us for the first time what you do agree with and bring a counter-proposal. It seems this isn't a question of the scope of sanctions or targets, but an absolute refusal to take part in the sacred right to 'shoulder the burden.'"

