Deputy Foreign Minister Sharan Haskel expressed opposition to the military exemption law in its current form being advanced in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, stating in a declaration that "we cannot allow this law to pass." She claimed that "I know the Haredi political operatives are pressuring Netanyahu," announced that she is beginning a march from Kfar Saba to Jerusalem carrying an Israeli flag, and called on reserve soldiers to join her. "We cannot provide a political solution to a security problem," she said.