More Threats to the Government Coalition

That this government has lasted as long as it has seems to be an open miracle. The government goes from crisis to crisis, from threat to topple to threat to topple, from investigation to investigation. The shared fear of elections has kept them together, but at some point it has to unravel, or else the Prime Minister has to tell his partners that this type of functioning with regular threats to topple has to stop.
The newest dispute over the new draft law seems pretty serious. The Haredi parties pushed to get it approved quickly without any delay. At first they took their time and were drafting a law and working on the text with others. As the investigations close din on Netanyahu and increased the chances of the government falling, they decided they needed to speed this up and get it in before elections are possibly called and before new government comes n that might not be so Haredi-friendly. But the coalition partners are not playing along and don't want to be bullied into agreeing to something they don't agree with at such a level as mass exemptions from the draft. The Haredi parties are saying this was a coalition agreement and it has to be approved or else. Gafni already halted discussions about the budget and wont let the new budget votes happen until this is finalized. Now Litzman is threatening he wont vote with the coalition on the budget and he will collapse the government if necessary.
Netanyau is generally a wizard at patching these things up. I can't wait to see how he resolves this. However, I do not understand how he is not so frustrated by it all already and doesn't do what he did last time with all the demands and just fire everyone and call for new elections. It must be because of his own problems and the uncertainty that goes along with it.
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