to those who asked” Akuperma: “confiscating the money they raise abroad, as well as throwing the talmidim in prison.”
What are you talking about? Where did you hear this?
YNET and Israel Times sites.
They have decided that cutting off funding for yeshivos won’t work, since many yeshivos (the noisiest one in protest the government) never accepted government money, and that many yeshivos rely on foreign fundraising. Therefore the idea of merely cutting off government money won’t be effective in punishing yeshivos that oppose conscription. That requires fines that have to be paid from money raised from private donors, which means from America.
They also realized that fines against penniless yeshiva students (and face, even the most middle class 18 year is penniless unless he inherited a trust fund, which is very rare even in America and unheard of in Israel) are uncollectible, and therefore they will need to throw them in prison for refusing to serve in the army.
Look it, I know you guys really believe that the medinah was the beginning of the geula. But it times to admit that the zionists are the ones we daven for in Shmonei Esray every weekday with the bracha that includes “v’kal oyvei amecha meharah yekarasu”. Ha-Shem will protect the Am ha-Torah. It might still be, just not in the way you think.