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Sorry if this has been mentioned before and I missed it. Sunday is like really soon.
https://www.vox.com/politics/24114496/be...ition-gaza
This Sunday, Israel is scheduled for a political crisis.
At midnight Israel time on April 1, the government will hit a deadline for changing its policy on the military draft. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will then be required to send conscription notices to roughly 66,000 ultra-Orthodox men, who had been previously exempted by a law carving out special privileges for students at religious academies, or yeshivot.
This might sound like an obscure internal Israeli political fight, but it actually has the potential to alter the entire trajectory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The conscription issue splits Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government apart at the seams. Netanyahu depends on ultra-Orthodox parties for his parliamentary majority; if he permits mass conscription of yeshiva students, they’ll abandon him. But if he gives the ultra-Orthodox what they want, he’ll run afoul of key members of his own right-wing Likud party, potentially prompting their defections.
These scenarios both end the same way: with the collapse of Netanyahu’s governing coalition and new elections, which Likud would (per every poll) lose by a wide margin. Netanyahu’s defeat would almost certainly usher his more centrist rival Benny Gantz into power. And while some of Gantz’s policies toward the war and the Palestinians would look the same, they would likely differ on some critical issues — including the all-important questions of Gaza’s political future and a Palestinian state.
Sounds like Netanyahu may not be able to thread this needle.
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The 13% sitting on their asses in yeshivas while everyone else faces death to defend Israel.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews who do not study Torah all day should not be drafted into the military, Moshe Tzedaka, Rabbi of Porat Yosef Yeshiva, said this week to an audience of Shas representatives, according to Israeli media.
The Rabbi also stated the soldiers’ protection depended on yeshiva students.
"We have to believe with complete faith that the yeshiva students who study the Torah are the ones who protect the soldiers, they are the ones who protect the wounded, and they are the ones who protect the hostages," the Rabbi noted.
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Yisrael Beytenu Chairman, MK Avigdor Liberman, wrote on X in response to Rabbi Tzedaka's comments: "Maimonides ruled as follows, 'anyone who puts it on his heart that he should study the Torah and not do any work and make a living from charity, is dishonoring the name of God.'
"Maimonides also adds and writes, 'in Milkhemet Mitzvah [war of obligation], everyone goes into battle, even a groom from his room and a bride from her wedding canopy.'"
"You, Rabbi, are engaged in a desecration of God's name," Liberman concluded.
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RHIP Rank Religion Has Its Privileges
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How does the IDF deal with bone spurs?
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And now we know why he wanted to control the Israeli Supreme Court.
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Steve G. wrote:
The 13% sitting on their asses in yeshivas while everyone else faces death to defend Israel.
"Maimonides also adds and writes, 'in Milkhemet Mitzvah [war of obligation], everyone goes into battle, even a groom from his room and a bride from her wedding canopy.'"
Some might argue that Mitzvah is voluntary, even if it really isn't.
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Well, I guess the person writing the article in the OP should have dug deeper:
https://allisrael.com/starting-today-isr...ons-expire
Most observers don’t think the State of Israel will enforce the draft until a new IDF draft law is legislated with the assent of the ultra-Orthodox parties in the government.
So this was no tripwire to an explosion but seems to be a boiling pot that is constantly making a mess but nobody has figured out how to turn down the heat.
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I've read too many Yahoo obits to believe it now...
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-o...scription/
The protest came on the same day that a High Court of Justice order came into effect freezing financial support for Haredi yeshivas whose students receive annual deferrals from military service, with the Defense Ministry instructed to begin the process of drafting Haredi men.
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Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed the ultra-Orthodox parties that he would “compensate them retroactively” if the court cut off yeshiva funding, Channel 12 news reported.
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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Monday called on the premier to “uphold the law.”
“I call on the government not to cheat, not to deceive, not to find bypass routes, not to transfer hidden budgets, not to do all the things we know they will try to do,” Lapid declared during his Yesh Atid party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset. “For a change, they will be forced to act as if they are a law-abiding government in a law-abiding country.”
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