Attorney-General Gali Barharav Miara on Monday called to implement personal sanctions against draft evaders, including financial sanctions and bans from leaving the country and holding a driver’s license, and announced that draft orders will soon be sent to tens of thousands of bnei yeshivos.
Speaking at the Israel Bar Association’s annual conference, she claimed that the non-conscription of bnei yeshivos “harms equality in the most blatant way” and “mortally wounds the basic sense of justice.”
She then called to increase and deepen sanctions against drafter evaders, emphasizing: “Effective sanctions must be personal. As explained by security officials, the sanctions must meet the individual in his personal life, at the airport, in the bank account, in the use of a car, and so on.”
“In contrast to personal sanctions, community sanctions are not perceived by professional sources as having a similar potential impact. They do not direct the behavior of the individuals themselves.”
She then outlined three steps of her plan to increase army recruits, with the first step being “a very significant increase in the scope of conscription orders.”
“Step two – exhausting the existing military enforcement tools regarding evaders,” she continued. “Step three – expanding the basket of sanctions and incentives regarding evaders.”
“Additional significant enforcement measures can be advanced in government decisions, without legislation,” she claimed. “The matter is in the hands of the ministerial echelon.”
She continued: “The Chief of Staff has instructed the army to formulate a plan for a significant increase in the scope of conscription orders and the exhaustion of existing enforcement tools. I welcome this. I understand that the plan is supposed to be presented within a short time. Regarding the expansion of sanctions, so far, the government has refrained from advancing the issue. This conduct is inconsistent with the needs of the army and with the constitutional right of equality.”
In her speech, Baharav-Miara also slammed the current government’s “contempt and defiance of the law” and its “harm to the judicial authority.”
“Under the cover of the war, disregard for the law is felt,” she said. “This is not a warning regarding the future, this is the reality in practice.”
She described the democratically elected government as a “regime,” saying that “the regime is changing before our eyes, and a central aspect of the change is the systematic weakening of checks and balances. What is particularly dangerous is the ongoing harm to the judicial authority and its independence.”
She claimed that an independent judicial authority is “the pillar for preventing abuse of governmental power in Israel “and the “weakening of democracy.”
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But the Arabs who throw stones can have bank accounts,drive cars, and travel where they want. How ironic. That’s called Israeli democracy.
For people as such, Chazal wrote the 19th Bracha in Shmona Esrei.
HKBH must have a special plan for this rashanta but I don’t know what He is waiting for.
She’s so concerned about the war yet she’s trying to prosecute the prime minister during the entire scope of the war so far.
Not much can be expected from a liberal traitor from amalek, what saddens me much more than this is you have many jews even shomrei shabbos that support what she’s doing even though she gives the Arabs a free pass and all the funding that they get, but to give a Jewish learner anything is a crime. Not just that let’s sanction their hard-working wives and take away the daycare so that they can’t work either. The government is against this woman and the Prime Minister wants to get rid of her so badly but her friends in the Nazi Court won’t let. If you can’t see that there’s an issue with her I don’t know when corruption will be visible to you. But just know that if you really are on her side you are going to go down miserably when the time comes
“She described the democratically elected government as a “regime,… governmental power in Israel “and the “weakening of democracy.”- No words necessary for this utter nonsense of exactly the opposite.
Go on with your sanctions, European countries will respond in kind in a way they will have “potential impact”.
I think she imagines that Hareidi are the super-rich upper class? For many years, and perhaps today, many Hareidim functioned without using the Zionist banks – using cash (both American and Israeli). It is understandable that a member of the Israeli upper class may have trouble understanding the idea of people living “off the grid” without access to the financial system.
And she is doing this in the hope that there will be more Hareidim learning how to use weapons and having access to weapons. Perhaps she believed that the Jewish resistance in Europe and World War II was trained and equipped by the Germans? This alone suggests she is delusional.
Mordechai Hayehudi:
Actually, that was written for the Zionist “State” as a whole, not just her.
every bar daas knows that the her and their true intent is to rip a ben yeshiva away from the koslei beis hamedrash
vezeh pashut u’barur
So she wants to take yeshiva students hostage? Maybe 10/7 isn’t done yet, and the Zionist will have other hostages to deal with in a sense of מידה כנגד מידה
Seems to me like a good idea, better than putting them in jail.
The protesters and Roshei Yeshiva have said that they’re willing to die rather than be drafted.
In light of that, merely having to suffer loss of a driver’s license and economic sanctions seems like a pretty good deal.
Shlomo2,
Believe me, it won’t stop there
Shlomo 2; Looks like you posted on the wrong website. Go back to Ha’aretz.
עוּצוּ עֵצָה וְתֻפָּר; דַּבְּרוּ דָבָר וְלֹא יָקוּם, כִּי עִמָּנוּ אֵל
@coffee addict:
If it turns out to be effective, why wouldn’t it stop there?
If it doesn’t, why should it?
Should Israel’s taxpayers and reservists simply accept the situation as is?
Why should they?
@Uncle Ben:
Maybe I posted on this website for the benefit of those who think rationally rather than tribally.
HaKatan, especially on a yom de’israchesh boh nes, your name and your intellectual capability are provably equivalent. undoubtedly, you said tachnun today.
DrZionist:
Of course.
You mean on a day that the Zionists lie about having a miracle happen to them?
Unlike the Zionist propaganda and lies, the Zionist victory in their war in 1967 was no miracle, as the military history clearly shows and as some gedolim like the Satmar Rav knew already back then and wrote openly about that in his sefarim.
The pathetic Zionists call their idolatrous invented “Jerusalem Day” a “reunification of Jerusalem”. That implies that Jerusalem used to be unified before 1967. The Zionists don’t like to admit that it was, indeed, unified before they declared their “independence” in 1948 and, blatantly against both the will and warning of the gentiles, the Zionists attempted to conquer Jerusalem.
This caused the Jordanians to then enter that war and then spill more precious Jewish blood on the idolatrous altar of the Zionism. From then on – until the Zionists wasted more Jewish blood for their idol in 1967 – Jews were no longer able to go to the Kosel, unlike prior to the Zionist war in 1948 when Jews were able to go to the Kosel.
Eileh eleohecha, Zionists. And this is your big “celebration”. What a sick idol.
HaKatan, if I thought you would understand, I would tell you to read kol dodi dofek. however, just stick to al ha’geulah ve’al ha’terumah. BTW, it is pronounced Kotel.
The Zionist are enemies of Judaism. There goal was to eradicate Judaism.
Dr yidd there are legions of Jews who pronounce it kosel what makes your pronunciation any redder than theirs