At the request of the defense minister and government secretary, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee published the text of the law canceling arrests for ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, and said he would schedule discussions this week to advance the bill. In practice, this is a 'mini conscription law' that includes only the parts benefiting the ultra-Orthodox regarding the regularization of the status of Torah scholars for whom arrests will be frozen, without any criminal sanctions or the parts dealing with recruitment targets. According to the text, the law would be valid for 90 days during the elections, but this is a false pretense since according to the Basic Law: The Knesset, any law that expires four months after the end of the Knesset automatically receives an extension of transitional provisions — meaning the immunity from arrests would be valid for six months. Knesset Legal Advisor Sagit Afik strongly opposes the law. The clear definition of status, combined with the registration and declaration mechanism, is expected to set a precedent that will de facto regularize the status of Torah scholars in Israel.