Morning Update: Israel’s potential shift on conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews threatens to split Netanyahu coalition

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Good morning, Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews are making a vow that their children will never join fellow Israelis in the armed forces, filling the streets in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighbourhood near a military recruitment centre in protest of the country’s mandatory conscription. Their protest was a response to a recent decision from Israel’s Supreme Court that ordered the country’s leaders to end a decades-long exemption from mandatory military service for the ultra-Orthodox community. This exemption is a divisive political issue entwined with profound issues of Jewish identity – one that has become all the more urgent amid the war in...