A new government-sponsored bill which was already approved by the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee will make it significantly more difficult for women to receive a deferment from IDF service on grounds of being a frum Jew.
It appears the realization that indicate hundreds of non-religious females receive exemptions from military service by declaring themselves ‘religious’ has prompted the stricter guidelines. IDF officials were simply unable to do anything but now; the new law will compel hundreds of additional women to serve every year.
The new law will compel a female to make the declaration of being religious and stand by that for two years. In addition, if one receives an exemption from service based on religion, one will be compelled by law to notify the military in the event of a change in lifestyle, referring to females who abandon a life of adherence to Torah and mitzvos.
The military will also be empowered to change a female’s status if it can prove the declaration was a false statement or if the female in question stopped being religious during the two years. The military plans to have field agents following women around to make sure declarations of being Shomer Shabbos are true.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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the headline should be Israeli Army is making draft dodging difficult for cheats
a frum women should not have any problem if they do not want to serve it is those who have a non observant lifestyle that are being sought after
The “standards” issue has been used in the past as a way of trying to force Sefardit girls into the army, largely on the theory that they would be easier to “break” than Ashkenaziot.
It is interesting the no other country in the world conscripts women.
Now this is interesting
This is wonderful, because it will force more women to keep mitzvos, at least in public. They may behave badly in private, but at least when they’re in public they won’t break shabbos, they won’t eat treif, their clothes won’t be too bad, they won’t be engaging in public immorality. Every avera they don’t do because they’re afraid the IDF is watching is good for their neshomos and for klal yisroel.