Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition survived an attempt to dissolve Knesset as ultra-Orthodox lawmakers reach a compromise with a Likud leader over military exemptions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu survived yet another attempt to vote his government out of power, despite the opposition’s best attempts to activate the country’s religious communities against him.

Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, the chairman of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party, resigns from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet after lawmakers vote down a bill to dissolve the Knesset.

Despite early public announcements that they would support the dispersal bill, haredi politicians were slightly more hesitant on Tuesday night as to whether they would follow through on their threat.The opposition leaders announced that they were removing all other items they proposed from Wednesday’s plenum agenda,