By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz
The Knesset voted 63-52 late Monday night to pass Basic Law: Torah Study, granting Torah study quasi-constitutional status as the only value explicitly enshrined in one of Israel's twelve Basic Laws. The vote came after ten hours of speeches and opposition filibustering, and it lands the country squarely back inside a fight over military conscription that has simmered since the state's founding in 1948.












