In a letter to legal advisers for both ministries, Baharav-Miara and Deputy Attorney General Gil Lemon noted that the state needs to tell the High Court of Justice by the end of the month what steps it is taking to draft the Haredi community.
“Beginning April 1, 2024, there will be no source of authority for a blanket exemption from military conscription for yeshiva students, and the defense establishment must act to draft them into military service in accordance with the law,” wrote Baharav-Miara, in a letter first published by Channel 13 news.
A government resolution from June 2023 instructing the IDF to temporarily not draft Haredi students despite the expiration of a law governing the matter will expire at midnight on Sunday night.
By March 31, the government was supposed to have found a way to comply with a court ruling from 2017, which determined blanket military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students to be discriminatory and illegal.
There is an infamous thing that happens in hospitals. Let's say you have a very elderly, very sick patient. If his heart stops, resuscitation will 99% fail and if you do get that 1% and get a heart beat back, he will be brain dead and remain in a bed in the ICU until it happens again. Yet the family insists they want everything done, no matter what!
ReplyDeleteThey know who these patients are and many times when "a code" is called, they head to bedside but not very quickly. they know all they're doing is desecrating a corpse and don't want to cause more suffering so we move slow.
The government will do a similar slow-walk with the Chareidim. After all, Bibi prioritizes keeping the Chareidim happy so they'll keep him in power so why obey this new law? The army itself isn't thrilled about a bunch of unskilled, Yiddish speaking bums who will refuse to eat the food because it's not kosher enough or do the morning training because it interferes with their tefillos. The other soldiers don't want to have to put him with their passive-aggressive nonsense. So not much will happen.
Indeed. The IDF is not equipped nor willing to provide for an adequate religious setting for ultra-Orthodox soldiers.
DeleteNot all Hareidim are the same, some will do menial work eg in the kitchens, some might do intelligence or work behind a commuter screen. Maybe the stronger ones will carry weapons, drive trucks etc.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but the problem is that when the army goes into a yeshiva and says "Nu, ver villen kimen?" no one will raise his hand, either because he doesn't want to go or because he's afraid he'll be ostracized if he does.
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