Conscription orders were sent to thousands of yeshivah bochurim on Tuesday morning following Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara’s order to the security system to begin drafting Chareidim.
Walla reported that the first orders were sent to talmudei yeshivah who received a deferral in the past that is now expired due to the Supreme Court’s decision.
There are about 62,000 talmudei yeshivah who can potentially be drafted following the ruling.
Ynet reported on Sunday that the IDF will try to drag out the process of recruiting Chareidim in order to allow them time to prepare proper frameworks.
Sources familiar with the issue estimate that the IDF will not will not rush to enforce conscription orders or take draconian measures in the coming weeks in the hope that the issue will be resolved by the political echelon.
As of Monday evening, the transfer of funds for talmudei yeshivah who are required to enlist was halted. About 56,000 talmidim out of 130,000 fall into that category.
Administrators of yeshivos told B’Chadrei Charedim: “We won’t be broken by the budget freeze. We’re preparing to embark on a significant fund-raising campaign. The Olam HaTorah will withstand this.”
Kan News reported on Monday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised the leaders of the Chareidi parties that he will present a conscription law acceptable to the Attorny-General within 30 days. He also promised to approve the legislation at the start of the next Knesset session – even if Defense Minister Yoav Gallant opposes it.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“he will present a conscription law acceptable to the Attorny-General…” there is no such thing in the world – what you need, is to present a new A-G who is acceptable to the status quo.
Talmudei???
Plural of talmid is talmidei!
this is all smoke and mirrors there are plenty of rich askanim and philantropists in chutz laeretz who can easily subsidize these yeshivas look at the numbers coming to Bell Works next week for the Mir, we dont need the Zionists threats.
yeah right sure and how many of them will enlist into the army i mean cmon and wake up already don’t they know that the world stands on learning torah they don’t even care about that anymore all they want is more power and to make as much money as possible u know who cares about the jews anymore
DRAFT THE LEFTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!
Lakewood,
But if the askanim subsidize yeshivish what’s going to happen to the pesach hotels etc
What would happen if everyone turned up to enlist on the same day?
When asked to step up and defend Our country the Orthodox sit down.
Domenick00; “our” country? Italy?
@Uncle Ben. Yes you are right but so is the article.
The biggest tsora klal yisroel ever worse then mitzraim denounce citizen
מעשה אבות סימן לבנים – וירק את חניכיו. It is a terrible thing that the state still needs young people to sacrifice some of the best years of their lives to serve. בימות המשיח we will see לא ישא גוי אל גוי חרב ולא ילמדו עוד מלחמה, and all young men will be able to devote all of their time to learning דבר השם. Until then, unfortunately, we still need an army.
There are a million and a half Palestinians who receive free education, university, medical treatment and Bituach L’Umee.WHY AREN’T they asked to do National Service??? Why are yeshiva students the only ones who are targeted.
So the yeshiva world might need to decide if they are, or are not, zionists? If they flee the country, or engage in civil disobedience, and are making clear they are willing to agree to a non-zionist state, they will attract broad support, and may play a key role in ending the zionist dream. The hiloni majority has stated they would rather have no Jewish state than a state that is Jewish, and now it is our turn to answer.
Just wondering – if it’s so easy to replace Israeli government funding with amounts collected from rich Askanim, why have the Chareidi parties continually pushed in the Knesset to increase the budgets for Yeshivos and Kolelim? The amount of resentment caused by their actions in the political arena could have been avoided if they’d not been seen as trying to take for themselves from the public purse for so long – and they’d have had much more remaining credibility now to try to keep real learners from being drafted.
an Israeli Yid
The Brisker Rav who believed the establishment of the medina was an ISSUR, did just fine not taking traife money.
Satmar as well.
what you need, is to present a new A-G who is acceptable to the status quo.
That is impossible. Netanyahu does not have the power to do that. Israel is not a democracy, it is a dictatorship, and the A-G is the day-to-day dictator, subject to the guidance of the Supreme Court.
“Shall your brothers go to war, while you remain here?”
I am no fan of conscription as a general rule. But I never thought I would witness, in an existential war, thousands of Jewish men unwilling to take up arms to defend themselves, their families, and their fellow Jews. And on top of that, these individuals are actually demanding monetary support from those who are sending their sons and husbands into battle, with no assurance that they will ever see them again? How disappointing, to put it mildly.