Netanyahu , the Left, and Charedi Politics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Matzav)

I have been reading with interest reports about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultimate and untimely demise. It is interesting to see the differences in how various media have been reporting it. They range from outright glee and anticipation by the Left - citing the impending evidence of massive corruption... to dismissal by the Right of the investigation as a witch hunt with little evidence of any serious wrongdoing.

A poll released by Israel’s Maariv newspaper Friday indicated that the recent recommendations of Israel police to indict Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on charges of corruption would not have a serious effect on the Likud party or the coalition. If new elections were held today, the Likud and five other coalition parties would garner a combined 65 seats, according to the new Rafi Smith poll—just one less than they currently hold. 

UTJ MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman (Arutz Sheva)

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman (UTJ) threatened that if the coalition does not vote for the new draft law, the haredi parties will not vote for the 2019 budget.
 The new Basic Law would declare that the study of the Torah has a supreme value. By enshrining Torah study as a "basic value" of the State of Israel, the new law would allow the government to circumvent the court's ruling and enable it to grant draft exemptions or deferments to those enrolled full-time in a yeshiva institution. 

MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism) made clear on Wednesday that the haredi parties had no intention of compromising on the draft law. 

Yesh Atid MK, Yair Lapid (Wiki)

(F)ormer Finance Minister Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party—a member of the opposition and a vocal critic of the prime minister, who has been pegged as a prime witness in one of two corruption charges—would see his party claim 22 seats, doubling its current 11. 

Coalition partner Jewish Home party, headed by Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennett, would also rise by three seats to 11.
 The Arab Joint List would fall a single seat, while Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Union party would plummet to 15 seats, down from 24.