Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara urged the High Court on Friday to overturn legislation freezing the arrest of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers.

Submitting the state’s opinion, Baharav-Miara called the law passed during a final legislative blitz by the government earlier this month “an extreme and clear case of flawed and harmful legislation that does not meet legal standards.”

She added that it creates “a selective and discriminatory criminal enforcement regime, which is diametrically opposed to the fundamental constitutional principle of equality before the law.”

Several petitions were filed against the law immediately after its passage, arguing that the legislation was discriminatory since it bans arrests for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students who have failed to obey conscription orders, while allowing arrests for non-Haredi draft dodgers to continue.

The court has already temporarily frozen the implementation of the law and Baharav-Miara urged the court to block it completely.

Baharav-Miara said the government’s efforts to exempt the ultra-Orthodox from military service mean that the burden placed on those who do........

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