Former prime minister Naftali Bennett convened a press conference on Monday evening regarding the conscription law.
Bennett discussed his draft law outline, which would grant benefits to active reservists, including assistance with apartment purchases and support for daycare and state services. He Bennett added that the economic damage from draft dodging amounts to roughly NIS 100 billion, a direct loss to the market.
"From the very first day of the government we will form, we will cancel the draft evasion law,” he said.
“This is an anti-Zionist law that weakens the IDF. The Law of Those Who Serve will be a condition for joining a government under my leadership.”
The statement to the media comes in the wake of MK Yitzhak Goldknopf's statement during Sunday's debate in the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on the draft law that sanctions against draft evaders are "a yellow badge for Torah scholars."
Bennett's draft law revokes benefits from those who do not serve
It also offers academic and grant benefits to those who complete military or national service, and revokes benefits from members of the public who do not serve.