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- MK Dan Illouz is expected to announce his departure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party.
- His exit follows MK Yuli Edelstein’s July 3 statement that he will also leave Likud.
- Both have condemned the coalition’s Basic Law: Torah Study bill that would grant benefits to draft-exempt haredi men.
- Illouz argued in June that ultra-Orthodox parties endanger Israel’s security and economy because draft evasion reduces army manpower.
