Knesset Reportedly Moves To Create A Special Chabad Haredi Draft Track

The Knesset’s Shaked Committee which is working on a new universal military draft bill has decided to add a third special track for Chabad followers.

 

Knesset Reportedly Moves To Create A Special Chabad Haredi Draft Track
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

The Knesset’s Shaked Committee which is working on a new universal military draft bill has reportedly decided to add a third special track for Chabad followers. The new Chabad track would join the already existing “hesder” track for Zionist Orthodox and the new haredi track.

According to a Chabad rabbi who reportedly spoke with the haredi news website Kikar HaShabbat, the bill will reportedly allow Chabad yeshiva students ages 18-20 to:

• Leave Israel to study in 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad’s main headquarters in Brooklyn, New York – for up to two years.

• Return to Israel without penalty or arrest for draft dodging.

• Get married before enlisting.

• Spend one year in kolel (yeshiva for married students) before enlisting.

• Delay enlistment into the IDF until age 24, if they choose to do so.

• (Apparently serve a shortened term of enlistment, although this is not yet clear.)

Comments

[Yosef ben Matitya]

ah! they have a track now for non jews?

[rebitzman - $101 to read my posts]

Yosef - you beat me to it......

[Jeff]

They always have to be different. Always. This isn't being done to accommodate legitimately different requirements. It's being done to distinguish themselves from the other Haredi groups - to illustrate, yet again, that theirs is the only true form of Yiddishkeit remaining.

Will they also have a different soldier's manual, with a different font taken from the Rebbe's sichos? Will their helmets be slightly larger and worn at a slightly different angle?

[Yochanan Lavie]

Let's hope Mitzvah Tanks stand up to RPG's.

[Jeff]

"Let's hope Mitzvah Tanks stand up to RPG's."

Ha!

[David]

+++Will their helmets be slightly larger and worn at a slightly different angle?

Posted by: Jeff | February 10, 2014 at 07:41 AM+++

Absolutely. Did you know that the Rebbe's Borcilino was shaped a little differently from all of the others? It had an extra "peak" on the top.

In fact, a Borcilino is far better at protecting the Chassid's brain case on the battlefield than the latest Kevlar helmet.

[Jeff]

Yes, I'd imagine it would be - blessed by Hashem, and all.

[jimmyInBkln]

Instead of commending Chabad for being prepared to enlist you mock them.
Fact is quite a few Chabad followers have served full combat service.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

rebitzman | February 10, 2014 at 07:30 AM

:-) that's OK, as long as we say the same thing.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

jimmyInBkln | Feb 10, 2014 at 11:12 AM
there is nothing to praise, jimmy.
it's their duty, that is if they are jewish or druze.
a special brigade for these clowns for doing less than the regular jews, is a burden and extra expense for the military. let's see them doing 3 years like everybody else.
jewish hareidim joining the IDF do only 16 months. (I/O 36).
I don't know about minim in a custom designed -what, battalion?
what is special about them? they can't serve with jews? hareidim or otherwise? they run a danger of being exposed to the influence of frumsters?
they will serve them treif chassidische scheetoh fon rubishkin?

[Yosef ben Matitya]

David | February 10, 2014 at 08:55 AM

David, the brand is Borsalino.
:-) otherwise be well.

[Abracadabra]

This is insane. If this passes it will be proof that Israel is going down the drain.

[Jimmy Choooo]

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[Jimmy Choooo]

Haven't you kind of missed the point. The bit about serving less is Scotty's classic insertion - unsubstantiated, therefore in brackets but it is what makes his whole story and what you all pounce on. The true details of the story do not suggest that they will serve in a different unit just that they will be allowed to do a little extra study first. At least they are going for the right compromise position of willingly serving (unlike most other Hardeim) albeit wanting to do some added study first. Smoke and mirrors but it is what keeps Rosenbergs blog alive and the few of you that are left frothing at the mouth embracing every lie as gospel.

[Jimmy Choooo]

Here is the original article that Scotty "plagiarized" as he does, albeit rewritten in his own words. Spot the differences:

Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked arguing with United Torah Judaism MK Uri Maklev. Shaked is chair of the Knesset committee which this week will bring a final draft of the IDF enlistment law to a second and third vote, making it law. Photo Credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90 The Knesset committee working on the new draft bill have decided to add a third special track, in addition to the “hesder” track for religious Zionists, and the Haredi track: the Chabad Lubavitch track, Kikar Hashabbat reported. Over the next three days, the Knesset committee working on the conscription law, chaired by Jewish Home MK Ayelet Shaked, will prepare its final draft that will include, among other changes, shortening the service period for all enlisted IDF soldiers, adding a month to the hesder yeshiva track, and creating the Chabad track. According to a Chabad rabbi speaking to Kikar hashabbat, the Chabad track will have different, and presumably easier conditions than those offered to Haredi yeshiva students. The bill presented for a second vote on Tuesday permits Chabad yeshiva students ages 18-20 to leave the country to one destination: 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY, the world center of Chabad Lubavitch. They will stay there for two years, come back home, get married and spend one year in Kolel. Then they will enlist, as per the determination by the IDF. They, too, like Haredi students, will be permitted to ask for a delay of service until age 24. This will end, once and for all, the ongoing problem faced by Lubavitch youths who stay in America and then face charges of desertion upon their return, with some actually serving jail time. Now they can take their time and stay in Crown Heights with the IDF approval. According to the current draft, before the Tuesday vote, the hesder students will be serving an additional month, as prescribed originally by the Perry Committee, totaling their service at 17 months. Non-hesder soldiers will serve 32 months, down from 36. Minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Jewish Home, celebrated the new bill on his Facebook page, saying that, “for the first time in many decades, the government is acting to connect the Haredi public with the world of employment and service.” “Without this move, the State of Israel would have been trapped in an enormous socio-economic crisis in a few years,” Bennett added, promising: “in a few weeks we will change the reality in Israel.” It might be a sign of a good law when it is hated by many in the Haredi public as well as on the left. MK Eliezer Stern of Tzipi Livni’s movement, who served as head of HR in the IDF and wears a yarmulke, accused Jewish Home of hypocrisy, by making a mockery of the idea of equal burden, which the new draft law was supposed to fix. According to Stern, the hesder yeshiva track, which started out as a great thing, has become corrupt over the years, with men who are registered in hesder yeshivas actually doing other things and getting to serve a shorter term. Minister Yaakov Perry, whose committee actually wrote the original draft with the 17-month allotment to religious Zionist hesder soldiers, now accused Jewish Home of weakening the demands from Haredim. He promised a fight on the Knesset floor over the special terms awarded Haredim, seeing these as a rehashing of the faults of the Tal Law, which the Supreme Court annulled for its failure to introduce changes fast enough. It’s true that the Tal Law was moving slowly, getting between 2,000 and 2,500 Haredim into the army each year. But even Perry’s version of the new law only envisioned 3,200 IDF recruits, out of 5,200 recruits altogether, with the remaining 2,000 doing national service in their own communities. The additional 1,000 Haredi soldiers will hardly make a difference in terms of the IDF means, but will provide a wedge issues to be used effectively by both the left and the Haredi political parties, each riling up their voters to resist the “injustice.” In my humble opinion, the Tal Law, slow as it was, was achieving real results in benign ways, connecting thousands of young Haredi men and women to academic institutions and to the job market. The impatient Supreme Court, in its haste to get the numbers on paper, has created needless political battles.

[Yosef ben Matitya]

but jimmy, u r not telling us. are they jews altogether?