Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, a senior official in the IDF’s Personnel Directorate, declared on Wednesday morning in a discussion in the Knesset’s Subcommittee on Human Resources in the IDF that beginning on June 30, approximately 54,000 conscription orders will be sent to bnei yeshivos.
“During the month of July, 54,000 summons for initial conscription will be issued, spread over the coming year until June 2026, in addition to the 24,000 orders that have already been sent,” Tayeb said.
Tayeb also revealed that IDF policy has been changed in order to significantly shorten the process of declaring draft dodgers and enable the military police to carry out increased enforcement measures.
He explained why it previously took five to six months until a potential recruit who did not show up was defined as a “draft dodger.” After intial summons were sent to 16.5-year-olds, they were contacted by phone to verify that they actually received their orders—a process that takes time. If the recruits did not show up at the recruitment office, residency checks were also carried out to verify that the orders were sent to the right addresses.
When an “Order 12,” a warning before arrest, was issued, receipt was verified by an automatic phone call. Tayeb explained that all these steps were taken so that legally, draft dodgers couldn’t claim that they were unaware they received draft orders.
Tayeb continued, “We are going to update the process of declaring evasion in relation to the entire public. The main meaning of the process is that we are transferring the responsibility for showing up to the individual. We are removing a significant part of what is called ‘awareness checks,’ that is, attempts to communicate, to make sure one hundred percent that the individual is aware [that he received an order]. This move is supposed to significantly shorten the process; the minimum time should reach approximately four months.”
Tayeb added that the IDF will increase enforcement activity, including arrests, and not only at Ben Gurion Airport, in coordination with the Military Police and the Israel Police.
However, he emphasized that there are limitations on the number of detention facilities, and it may not be possible to carry out enforcement measures against the entire population in short periods of time.
“This system is supposed to be much more significant in terms of numbers and more effective,” he said. “It will not cover everything because it is a very large population that must be enforced so it will be effective but will not succeed in reaching everyone in short periods of time.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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You go against the Bnei Torah, the world will go against you – sanctioning Ben Gvir and Smortich is just the beginning!
They should set up Yeshiva in prison.
The Zionist Nazis can expect the country to be shut down, with all the streets in their business and exclusive residential districts to be clogged with tens of thousands of protesters.
DavidtheKanoi says: “You go against the Bnei Torah…”
They aren’t really against “Bnei Torah”. They don’t care what they do. They are simply saying why should our boys and girls be wounded and killed for the citizens of Israel including the “Bnei Torah” while the “Bnei Torah” don’t shoulder and of it? Not so difficult to understand.
Something that I have been wondering, but I haven’t figured out yet how to help it take off.
Frum American (and UK, French, Australian etc.) spend massive amounts of money in Israel. Somehow we should flex the muscle of the diaspora Torah world. Show them that we side with the Torah world in Israel. And if you are playing games with our brothers there, you are playing games with us. And thereby need to bear certain consequences.
-Very successful frum businessmen can say they are removing all their investments in Israel.
-The regular folk can stop visiting and spending money.
-Seminaries can close for a year (major other benefits here as well)
None of this needs to be long term. When they see the muscle being flexed and the damage that can be done, maybe they will back off the Torah world once and for all.
Open to other ideas of how we frum Jews in the diaspora can help the situation
If something like this would happen, I would fully be on board with UK and whoever else arresting the Israeli politicians. No need for these reshaim.
The old ” why should our boys and girls be wounded and killed for the citizens of Israel while others don’t serve in the IDF” argument doesn’t work. As sad as it is that 800+ of our soldiers have lost their lives fighting this war, more people have died in terror attacks in Israel over the past decades than fighting wars . Everyone in Israel is on the front lines , and in individual terror attacks ,probably more religious Jews are victims ( in percentage of the population) because they are obviously Jewish.
ujm, calling Zionists – Nazis – is beyond contemptable. Nazis killed over 6 million Jews including many members of my family. Anyone like you guilty of such behavior reserves an indefinite sentence in a hard labor prison.
they want to put bochurim in prison for the CRIME of learning Torah? they want to shut down yeshivas and let out terrorists to make room for bochurim. The Zionists dont understand that it is our learning that is protecting them, they would be happy having pride parades and having “Saturday” as a party day. The Zionists war on Torah will not succeed we survived Stalin we will survive the Zionists
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Why 800 soldiers died. Because the leftist secularists who run the army are more afraid to hurt Gaza civilians than the death of their own soldiers. Had they cut off all food and fuel from the very beginning this war would be over in four months with no dead israeli soldiers. They don’t allow religious soldiers to move up in leadership. They use religious soldiers to do the dirty work.
lakewoodbt, you did not survive Stalin; you just left. maybe, just leave; the Ukraine and Poland and White Russia want you back.
BTW the former head of the IDF was dati
DrGoyy: The truth is the truth. If this is how those jackbooted Zionists act, then we must call a spade a spade.
And we will never forget how the Zionists, during the Holocaust, worked with the Nazis to annihilate the “undesirable” European Jewry.
ujm, your vile distortions about Zionists working with Nazis are beneath contempt. Truth and you are not even distantly related.
Ujm, stop with your distortions! Nobody is impressed. You just hurt your cause by speaking like that.