Israeli voters went to the polls today. It was the third election in 12 months. One issue at the center of the country’s political deadlock concerns young people in the Ultra-Orthodox community serving in the Israeli military. Most of them do not serve. We sent The World’s Ariel Oseran to find out more.
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