Did Lapid win the battle and lose the war?

Yair Lapid spent a lot of time on Wednesday bragging about how he succeeded in imposing criminal sanctions on Haredi 'draft dodgers.' But in the end, he may not have really succeeded. While the sanctions are part of the bill, the person who gets to decide them is Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, who opposed them (Hat Tip: Eliana).
Ya'alon said that he believed that the automatic imposition of