popa_bar_abba:
You mean like letting people work without having gone to the army?
Yes, in a sense. Not once do I recall the Chareidim ever asking for something similar to this. It seems to me like the whole issue is a “tofasta meruba” problem, with the Chareidi oilom demanding full support for Yeshivas and kollels and demanding everyone sit in kollel. Every proposal by the Zionists is always a demand for elimination of the draft deferment. If instead, the Chareidim would propose something similar to, oh I don’t know, allowing a certain number of Chareidim to leave Yeshiva without having to join the army, perhaps the Zionists will accept that and perhaps we wouldn’t have this ridiculous self-made quagmire of ein kemach ein Torah.