Shea Levin — text status

Just hours after Gideon Sa'ar was approved as Israel's new interior minister, the High Court ordered him to decide within 30 days whether to strip arnona discounts from yeshiva bochurim and other draft-eligible men who have not arranged their status with the IDF. The discounts stay in place until he decides. The justices also gave Ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Miri Regev 21 days to decide on public transportation discounts, and ordered the state to update the court on criminal enforcement against draft-eligible men by December 15, as the battle over the Chareidi draft intensifies.