The Movement for Quality in Government (MQG) is an NGO that boasts being a government watchdog agency that remains politically unaffiliated. The organization’s founder and director attorney Eliad Shraga spoke with Kikar Shabbos after the Supreme Court announced the state must immediately halt funding for yeshivos hosting avreichim who are not serving in the IDF. It should be pointed out that MQG was a partner with Hiddush in filing the petition to the High Court seeking to halt the yeshiva funding on the grounds the state lacks a legal framework to continue funding avreichim who are not serving in the military. In addition, they pointed out the funding of chareidi yeshivos represents government discrimination against others compelled to serve in the military.
Shraga began by saying “כל המציל נפש אחת מישראל כאילו הציל עולם מלא” and this alone demands the chareidim begin pulling their weight in the defense of the nation. He stated “our goal is to have chareidim recruited into the military. I feel there is no alternative and ultimately, the chareidim will be inducted. They are a component of the nation, they live here, and the chareidim also enjoy equal benefits and now it’s time for equality in sharing the burden. There is no reason that I and my six children must go to the army and you and your eight children sit in a yeshiva”.
“I said it to the media before and I will repeat myself. I extend my condolences to the family of Captain Tal Nachman who was killed in the mistaken fire incident. http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/212563/the-story-behind-the-fatal-mistaken-fire-incident-along-gaza-border.html The time has come to begin dividing up the terrible heavy price citizens of this nation have paid over the years in the defense of the country and this includes the entire population”.
“I said that I haven’t seen military levayas beginning in Bnei Brak or Meah Shearim, and if this occurs, we will all share the same fate. This is called being brothers and living without discriminating between one another…”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The real question is whether they will attempt to block non-state funding of yeshivos that don’t support the state – meaning blocking them from receiving contributions from abroad. By cutting off state funding they only penalize those yeshivos that are at least somewhat pro-zionist, which strengthens the ones that are consistently anti-zionist.
Shmoe. He wents levayas in Bnei Brak and Meah Shearim? Rasha merusha what he is. He can keep waiting. Chareidim didn’t ask for this Zionist State so let them keep it and defend it themselves. Chareidim warned not to create this mamzer state that will constantly cost Jewish lives.
Well done, Toras Moshe.