In a press conference on Wednesday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant made a historic call for the forced conscription of Charedim into the IDF, declaring that “there is a real, national necessity to extend the service of soldiers and reservists.”
“When the burden on servants continues to increase, I say one thing clearly: This war proved everyone must (be conscripted),” Gallant said.
War cabinet Minister Benny Gantz echoed Gallant’s statement, writing that “all parts of Israeli society should take part in the right to serve. This is a national necessity.”
The move comes after the High Court of Justice issued conditional orders earlier in the week, threatening to upend the government’s policies on drafting yeshiva bochurim to the IDF. The Movement for Quality Government in Israel (MQG), one of the main petitioners, hailed the conditional orders as a “dramatic and important step” towards full equality in conscription.
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi also expressed support for the conscription of all members of Israeli society, stating that “in these challenging times, one thing is very clear – everyone should do their part to protect our home.”
Shas and United Torah Judaism (UTJ) are furious over Gallant’s support for the conscription of yeshivaleit, with one source telling KAN News that “it was full of catchphrases; this is not how to solve a crisis.” Another source in UTJ warned that “if Netanyahu wants to remain prime minister by summertime, he must get a conscription law approved in the Knesset.”
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Bibi Netanyahu needs to pass a conscription law, between Likud, Shas, UTJ, and Smotrich and Ben Gvir they have 63 MKs. They can pass this in a day, mamish one day.
The Torah given by the borei olam is the TRUE protector of Israel and the Jewish people!
Here we go again….
It’s sad that they don’t realize just how big of a role Yeshivos play in all of this. If people weren’t learning Torah we wouldn’t have a chance!
It’s not good enough that so many shomer torah U’Mitzvos were killed and injured during this war, THEY WANT MORE!
They are רודפים!
Mitzvah Melchemes. It’s a positive commandment. Put down ur sefer and get a mitzvah.
The wicked Zionists will use any excuse to convert the chareidim from Judaism to Zionism, which was always and remains the entire purpose of Zionism.
Chazal tell us that a rasha, even at the entrance to Hell, remains that way. This Zionist, even as the Iranians are threatening more attacks R”L L”A in honor of their “Ramadan”, wants to remove, or at least greatly diminish, their entire protection – the Torah of the Jews there.
Besides, a deal is a deal; chareidim get to remain Jewish, exempt from the Zionist army/indoctrination center of Zionism/shmad, regardless of the Zionist shmad of the rest of their “State”.
YW fan:
That is Zionism. And it’s not “we”; it’s “they”, as in the Zionists.
Some bare-headed pig-eater threatens the Torah and that is labeled a “disaster for yeshivos”? Not to worry; there is a G-d in this world.
I believe 100% Torah study offers better protection. Not really sure right now what the heter is for someone not learning full time (2+ sedarim/day) not to enlist in either of the frum Brigades.
Those who are not learning are already not exempt. Why are they not being rounded up and conscripted? The government has the authority, just not the will.
Ideally all 17-year-olds would show up for military assignment, and those with an aptitude for learning would be assigned to sit at a gemora and learn in uniform, and under military discipline. Come late to seder and get thrown in the brig. But for that to happen the IDF has to accept that learning Torah is a valid form of service.
In such a system those who do not have an aptitude for full-time learning would be assigned to some other unit, just like anyone else who wants to get into a certain unit but isn’t suited for it.
Right move! We are at war, everyone have to get ready and fight! No more sitting in Yeshiva and drinking Cafe all day!
The headline is misleading. There are yeshiva students in the IDF. Not only hesder yeshiva students but also reserve soldiers who may be in yeshiva. A number of them resent that the so-called charedim are not doing their share. Many Rabbonim have said that this is an obligatory war. If it is an obligitory war, aren’t everyone supposed to serve? Maybe it is even a chilul Hashem that so-called charedim are expecting others to serve. Yehoshuah and Dovid HaMelech were real charedim and they fought .
What eighteen year old would not put on a kippa go to a yeshiva and not get taken to fight in Gaza or Lebanon it’s probably because they won’t let them do that now when a war from Jordan might come it makes sense that they need as many people they can get to go fight and do not see sitting in yeshiva productive they do admit it murder to the Jewish soul but care no longer we see girls fighting real war there if the frum community was satmer and never voted in the knesset at all the chilonim would be the majority in a state with no religion and they would imprison them to go fight war but like rabbi akiva they can’t take from them seforim and they would learn Torah together there until they would get sick and make peace with palistanian and that’s where the yeshiva would exist the fact we have enough votes in the parliment won’t help cause the left parties will kiss netanyahu feet if he said to cancel the stipends and give more to the military and not only his but also the religious zionist if there is still the holy word of the prophet among the Torah Jews we would beg the Palestine government to let us in and make a holy yeshiva with them till the coming of moshiach Orthodox Judaism for centuries saw itself in complete exile but not without God
Ah yes, the malchus eiruv rav, showing their colors…again. (they really haven’t been hiding anything)
I’m against the draft law and exemption. I believe everyone besides leviim should voluntarily be in the army.
What does it need for them to learn that the IDF is useless and without the זכות התורה of hundreds of thousands Bochrim and Avreichim Hamas together with Hizbollah would have destroyed the whole country choliloh.
They have enough rockets to bomb every inch in the country.
Iran has plenty long range rockets that could reach Israel choliloh.
On the other hand; the IDF after 145 days all they rescued was 3 hostages and killed 3.
Hostages and Hamas leaders moved from place to place under the nose of the soldiers but couldn’t stop any of them.
The army has achieved nothing in Gaza nor will they achieve anything in Lebanon.
Any soldier that comes out alive from Gaza is ONLY in the זכות התורה!
And unlike the situation in the past, it is no longer possible to argue that the war with the Palestinians is about real estate or civil rights, since the Palestinians have changed their demands from “dhimmi” (Jews have limited rights, similar to the rights American Blacks had under “Jim Crow”) to “Final solution” (Eretz Yisrael Judenrein “from the river to the sea”). And at the same time, Israel may be facing the prospect of having to “go it alone” without outside aid, meaning that those students (and families) depending on government aid to maintain a respectable standard of living while learning Torah full time can expect that the “kollel money” will go for military expenses.
I demand that these secular commanders be thrown out of the IDF unless they learn in yeshivas.
Since the one’s learning Torah have the most zchusim they should be the ones going into battle as they will have the highest level of protection from Hashem.
At the same time the Non-religious should be drafted into Yeshiva for a few years then when Frum into the IDF. Over time the army will be made up entirely of Shomrei Torah & Mitzvos. What better protection could there be?
Look for yeshivaleit to eat more fast food
To put my comment in context let me state from the outset that I learnt in yeshiva and kollel for 6 years under a talmud of R’ Aahron.
Not well known are the words of R. S R Hirsch z”l in Horeb paragraph 609 where he writes,
“…there is a duty to obey the laws of the land and any regulation that the country’s king and authorities promulgate for the general good (dina d’malchota);… and to sacrifice even life itself when the fatherland calls its sons to its defense.”
I realize this isn’t the typical “Yeshivishe” view but R. Hirsch was kol kolo Torah so it is certainly an opinion to take into strong consideration.
Its the Torah learning that supports the nation. I hope that these proclamations by Gallant et al just serves to impress on the lomdei Torah how great their achrayus is to learn “bishkida atzuma”, constantly.
No one is saying that all Yeshivas should be shut down and Torah learning stopped. They are saying that particularly with 10,000 or so soldiers dead or wounded, a good percentage with missing limbs and brain damage, and with the country involved in an existential war, now is the time for Yeshiva guys to step up, sacrifice for the K’llal and join the army. Are the readers of this site so obtuse that they can’t see that the refusal of Chareidim to participate in defending Jewish lives is itself breeding hatred for Torah among Jews who otherwise may be open to loving it?
Torah protects but the Torah repeatedly describes Jews fighting in wars.
No one said it has to be the whole community that is exempt.
Pick a select few thousand to learn.
The rest need to help in some capacity.
1818, well spoken. What do the Gedolia Torah that oppose that view have to say? Do they have an answer for that?
@HaKatan
No it’s “we”. As in Klal Yisroel!