More Haredim Report To IDF For Initial Draft Process Than Expected

30% of the haredim who received draft notices since Tal Law exempting them from military service expired on August 1st reported to IDF recruitment centers to receive their official draft dates, which will begin this coming summer. This seems to support a new Ynet-Gesher poll released yesterday which found that only 66% of haredim believe haredi yeshiva students should be exempt from the draft.

More Haredim Report To IDF For Initial Draft Process Than Expected
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Israel Hayom reports that 30% of the haredim who received draft notices since Tal Law exempting them from military service expired on August 1st reported to IDF recruitment centers to receive their official draft dates, which will begin this coming summer.

"The rate of people being called up after receiving their draft notice and starting the process of being absorbed in the army is even greater than 30%. The cooperation level up to now has been very high,” an army source told Israel Hayom last night.

This seems to support a new Ynet-Gesher poll released yesterday which found that only 66% of haredim believe haredi yeshiva students should be exempt from the draft.

In contrast, haredi rabbinic and political leaders have been unified in their opposition to a haredi draft, and leading haredi rabbis have ordered their followers not to serve in the IDF.

However, the army source also told Israel HaYom that the actual draft of of haredim isn’t scheduled to being until summer, and it isn’t possible to predict now how many haredim will actually report for service then, and IDF officials noted that there may be political processes that will impact haredi reporting in the summer of 2013, as well.

Comments

[Justsayin]

This is good but not enough.

[Maskil]

More Haredim Report To IDF For Initial Draft Process Than Expected

Should read: "Than Desired."

[Leib Gross]

More Haredim Report To IDF For Initial Draft Process Than Expected

Impossible, Haredim do not serve. The source for this story must be wrong.

Posted by: Jack | November 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM

I know it is hard to believe but it is apparently true. We may have turned a corner here!

[David]

Having the Charedim in the military is pointless if the military has to make huge concessions to have them. As in everyday life, they will just drain resources. E.g. if they spend most of the day "learning" and require segregation from other soldiers (including females) and have to have super-glatt catering then what is the point?

As I have said before they have to do some sort of service (not necessarily military) that is properly supervised and involves genuine useful work that is harder, more unpleasant and of a longer duration than those that do military service. If they don't want those conditions then they can joint regular military units like everyone else.

[seymour]

maybe for some it is is a way to get out of the cult

[soso]

I suppose most of them will find a doctor who confirms a disability, so that they don't have to serve...

[Nick]

Has there been an uptick on the amount of Arabs reporting for service?

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Jack
"Impossible, Haredim do not serve. The source for this story must be wrong."

Yeah, that joke never gets old with you chaps.

*"The Netzah Yehuda Battalion (Hebrew: גדוד נצח יהודה), a battalion in the Kfir Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The purpose of the unit is to allow Chareidim Israelis to serve in the IDF in an atmosphere conducive to their religious convictions, within a framework that is strictly Halachically observant."

*"Record number of ultra-Orthodox men sign up for national service": http://goo.gl/p7fTF

Hi. I come from time around this parts when real life lets go of its iron grip. By the bemusing posts I chance to see in the recent articles, you must be this time period Extremist Religious Chareidim and/or supporter/apologist. =)

Hmm, you must be in the reserve's unit.