Haredi Draft Plan To Allow Yeshiva Studies

The Plesner Committee, tasked with creating a replacement for the Tal Law, which effectively allowed haredim to dodge the draft but which was ruled unconstitutional by Israel’s High Court of Justice in February, has developed a plan for haredi army service based the Hesder Yeshiva Program used by most Zionist Orthodox youth.

 

The Plesner Committee, tasked with creating a replacement for the Tal Law, which effectively allowed haredim to dodge the draft but which was ruled unconstitutional by Israel’s High Court of Justice in February, has developed a plan for haredi army service based the Hesder Yeshiva Program used by most Zionist Orthodox youth.

Called Bnei Hayal, Children of the Soldier, it lets haredim study in yeshiva “until age 19 or 20” and then serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for “16 to 24 months,” Ynet reported late today.

After their IDF service, haredim will be allowed to return to full time yeshiva studies.

Haredi leaders have threatened to stage riots across the country if haredi yeshiva students are forced to serve in the army.

Comments

[Seymour]

Why riot if Torah can protect the whole country from enemies then Torah learning should protect them from the draft

[A. Nuran]

So the Haredim come up with a plan to let them continue doing what they've been doing.

This is news?

[ntsc]

Absolutely certain method of beating the draft. Enlist.

Worked for me in 68.

[Rocky]

More and more young secular Jews in Israel are going to come to the conclusion that they are getting the short end of the stick and they will move abroad. Zionism only goes so far. I suspect that a tipping point will be reached in a generation. The Haredi and the 1% ers, along with the sick and the old, will be left to deal with tens of millions of hostile Arabs. It sounds like a sequel to the breakup of the ancient united kingdom of Israel some 3,000 years ago. Everything old is new again.

[Jake]

Rocky
More and more secular Jews don't go to the army, simply because they don't want to. We are for the most part living in a post Zionist era excerpt for religious Zionist.

It is easy for a secular Jew to get a deferment if they want. .

[John Nagle, Silicon Valley, CA]

Intransigence by the haredim is backfiring. See "http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=275836" The political controversy is no longer over whether haredim should be drafted. It's over how tough the sanctions on draft-dodgers should be.

Kadima is pressuring Netanyahu for financial sanctions. By most standards, the sanctions are rather weak. "Revocation of housing benefits, municipal taxes and other welfare allotments" are being proposed. Not fines and jail.