This comes amid an escalating crisis over the conscription of religious students, threatening the stability of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara reportedly announced on Thursday that the army will issue over 50,000 mandatory conscription orders to ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) yeshiva students in July.
The announcement came after her meeting with senior Israeli army officials, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN reported, according to the Anadolu news agency.
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Baharav-Miara stressed that the matter of drafting the Haredi students “is not progressing sufficiently, as the army urgently needs new recruits, which requires imposing personal sanctions on draft evaders,” KAN said.
This comes amid an escalating crisis over the conscription of religious students, threatening the stability of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
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Haaretz reported on Thursday that the Israeli army has issued approximately 25,000 draft orders to yeshiva students since July 2024, “but only a few hundred have reported to induction centers.”
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The report said that according to Baharav-Miara, the army was also “committed to presenting an enforcement mechanism targeting individuals who fail to comply with the draft orders.”
On Thursday, scores of ultra-Orthodox Israelis protested against the mandatory military draft by blocking a major road in central Israel, Haaretz noted.
Knesset Crisis
On Wednesday, the ultra-Orthodox Shas party announced that it would join the United Torah Judaism alliance in seeking to dissolve Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, and topple Netanyahu’s government due to the conscription impasse, according to Israeli media.
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Israeli outlets, including Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz, reported that senior rabbis from ultra-Orthodox parties have called for withdrawing from the coalition because of the ongoing deadlock in legislating a military draft exemption law for religious Jews, according to the Anadolu report.
Netanyahu, whose corruption trial has entered a critical stage, is trying to preserve his government, which has been accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza for the past 20 months.
His government has been in power since late December 2022. If elections are not brought forward, the next scheduled vote will be in 2026.
Supreme Court Ruling
Ultra-Orthodox communities continue to protest against military service following a June 25, 2024, Supreme Court ruling obliging them to enlist and prohibiting financial support for religious institutions whose students refuse to serve.
Haredim account for about 13% of Israel’s 10 million citizens. They oppose military service on religious grounds, arguing that studying the Torah is their primary duty and that integration into secular society threatens their religious identity and community cohesion.
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For decades, Haredi men have received repeated draft deferments on the basis of religious studies until they reach the exemption age, currently set at 26.
The Israeli opposition has accused Netanyahu of attempting to pass legislation exempting Haredim from service to satisfy coalition partners and avoid a government collapse.
(Anadolu, PC)
Zelensky & Netanhyu, identical. Corruption, dictatorship, driven by Nazism (Banderites & Zionism) and Foreign Meddling. ‘Volkssturm’ = ‘Peoples Storm’, child soldiers. But the Nazi never pushed priests (or Haredim) into the Meat Grinder. I see photos of mobs of “settlers”, enlist them and taste War. Last gasp, “Israel”.
How ridiculous. Just say no! refuse to go kill babies with the savages in the IDF. The best thing that the normal, good Jews can do is distance themselves from the ZioNazis. Unfortunately most Jews are weak and needy, too timid to go do anything about it. And the rest are ok with seeing children slaughtered in displacement camps as the Israeli Nazis drop 500 pound, US-made bombs on their tents. No one trusts the Jews and the only reason they get anything is because of ” Holocaust guilt ” . America armed and financed both sides in WW2, that’s public info. Now they want to murder as many Arabs as possible. At this point, any person who supports ” Israel ” is a scumbag.