Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with some members of the Knesset in Torah Judaism at his office in Jerusalem. The meeting is being held as part of the effort to lead to a solution to the issue of exempting ultra-Orthodox whose "teachings are their art" from enlisting in the IDF.

In the meantime, the heads of ultra-orthodox Mizrahi yeshiva published a firm letter: "We will not be deterred by imprisonment, compromise is ruin for generations"