Reply To: Israeli chareidi draft bill

gavra at large: I am not going to rehash the arguments about the draft bill but if you truly think that keeping thousands of young men in poverty and not giving them the chance of making a decent living is the best choice, then we have no common ground.

As far as exemptions that are exercised by the defense minister, this was the norm for over fifty years. So, there is precedent for that. And,clearly, this is the intention of the bill,otherwise why put it in? To give your argument some credence, it does say that defense minister can allow each chareidi to enter the workforce afetr 24, so technically, it is not a blanket “ptur”.