The Vaad HaYeshivos, the organization that serves as the primary liaison between the Chareidi community and the IDF on matters relating to yeshiva students, has formally appealed to President Isaac Herzog to intervene and help bring an end to the ongoing arrests of Bnei Yeshiva, according to a report in i24NEWS.
In its letter, the organization warns that the continued arrests are creating growing frustration within the Chareidi community and are having consequences far beyond the individual cases. It urges President Herzog to use the influence of his office to intervene and work toward ending the arrests before the situation deteriorates further.
The letter states that the current policy is producing the opposite of its intended goal, warning that the ongoing arrests are causing some to develop “thoughts of identification with the most extreme groups.” The organization argues that the current reality is increasing alienation rather than encouraging cooperation and understanding.
The appeal comes amid continued political and legal tensions surrounding the draft issue, as enforcement against Bnei Yeshiva classified as draft evaders remains a central issue in Israel’s public and political debate.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Looking for sympathy with that dumpster? Good luck
The letter has it backwards. What about the frustration among the non-haredi community over the failure of the haredi community to carry their share of the defense burden? The way
What about the growing frustration within the non-Chareidi community over the failure of the charedi community to carry a fair share of the defense burden? It’s obvious that the way to stop arrests of charedi men is to have people register and either serve in the army or do sherut leumi rather than grant a blanket exemption to an entire and growing portion of the population. There are many avenues to serve without compromising Torah and mitzvot and unfortunately also no shortage of opportunities to do chesed within the charedi community.
rebEmes, you will suffer forever in Gehinnom for your reference to President Herzog.
nbednarsh, absolutely correct.
@nbednarsh
No, it is you who has it backwards and that is totally wrong.
(To be clear, there are zero avenues to serve without compromising Torah and mitzvos – unlike your assertion – other than the chareidim’s own organizations like Zaka and other chessed organizations run by chareidim.)
Without the chareidim’s Torah learning protecting the Zionists, the Zionists’ army would be totally worthless no matter how many soldiers they’d have.
In addition, the chareidim were in the holy land before the Zionists invaded and begged the Zionists to not invade and to not light the region aflame. The Zionists didn’t and don’t care, and proceeded to do exactly that, against the wishes of the chareidim.
Moreover, the first dear leader of the Zionist paradise made a deal with Agudah that the bnei Torah would be exempt in return for Agudah not protesting against the Zionists at the UN. The Zionists have no right to now go back on their deal.