With a 31 March deadline looming for the government to come up with legislation to resolve a decades-long standoff over the issue, Netanyahu filed a last-minute application to the Supreme Court last week for a 30-day deferment.

In an apparent accommodation, the Supreme Court gave government officials until 30 April to submit additional arguments. But, in an interim ruling, it also ordered a suspension of state funding for seminary students who would be liable for conscription from Monday.

Protesters were waving blue and white […] flags and chanting “elections now”.

At a news conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he was confident a solution would be found. He also said that holding an election at the height of war, when he said [that the neocolony] was so close to victory, would paralyse the country for months.

In Tel Aviv, some families of hostages and their supporters blocked a main highway, protesting against what they described as Netanyahu’s failure to return their loved ones.

(I know that probably 99% of the protestors don’t care about the Palestinians—as much as I hate to say that—but their contribution to the neocolony’s instability is good.)