Members of Israel's nearly 150,000-strong Druze community and representatives of Israel's Bedouins, both minorities known for their loyal service in the country's military, have already lodged legal petitions to the court.

Over the weekend, Druze leaders led a protest that drew tens of thousands to Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, where a former head of the Mossad intelligence agency, a former Israel Defense Forces chief and the mayor of Tel Aviv were among those to speak in opposition to the law.

So far, at least two Druze military officers have quit the army, while an Arab lawmaker who said that the law "oppresses me and oppresses the population that sent me to the Knesset" resigned from parliament. Vocal opposition has also come from the international community and Jewish groups abroad.

Other than now in Israel, "there is no constitution in the world today containing a clause that determines that the state belongs to one ethnic group or that a given state is exclusive to a certain ethnic group," said Tuesday's petition, which was submitted by the Israeli human rights group Adalah and also signed by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and the National Committee of Arab Mayors.

The petition called on the Israeli Supreme Court to annul the law, arguing that it also violates the United Nations charter by denying the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. The law states that "the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people."

Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who has been pushing to curb the powers of Israel's Supreme Court, has said that if the high court strikes down the law, the result would be an "earthquake" that would begin "a war between branches of government."

The Druze, unlike most Arab Israelis, are subject to mandatory national service in Israel. The law has stirred calls for that to end.

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