Netanyahu criticises detention of over 40 yeshiva students at Ben-Gurion Airport over draft evasion
The men had arrived back home from a year of religious study in New York
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Netanyahu's criticism puts the detention of these students in the middle of a sensitive political fight over conscription and religious exemption. The men returned from a year of study abroad and were met with arrest, which signals enforcement is tightening. Watch whether this disagreement escalates into a broader coalition crisis or leads to a policy change on draft deferrals.