According to the government National Service Authority, there has been a drastic reduction in the number of chareidim entering national service programs. The decline is attributed to the law drafting chareidim and the component including criminal sanctions.
According to the report, only 300 chareidim entered a program in the second half of 2014 while government officials expected 750. In line with the new draft law, the government set a goal of 1,500 chareidim entering a national service program by the middle of 2015.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The relevant English expression is: “you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”.
The government announces a policy that amounts to a “war” on the hareidi communities, and is shocked that the hareidim don’t respond by immediately surrendering and agreeing to stop being so frum????
Shameful
This report is very misleading. According to an article today on Arutz Sheva, Yonatan Bransky (chairman of the Netzah Yehuda organization) says that more members of the chareidi community are joining the IDF than ever before. If there’s a “sharp decline” in chareidi enlistment in national service, it’s obviously because they’re going all out and joining the army instead. This proves that the “criminal sanctions” issue is completely phony.
As so many have argued, the present system of full-time, life-long learning for EVERYONE is foolish and unsustainable. Change is coming from the bottom-up, as chareidim will continue to “vote with their feet” by marching out of the Beis Medrash and into responsible roles which will enable them to become bead-winners for their families. Obviously, they’re recognizing that IDF enlistment is the right and beneficial thing to do.
lenco,
ever thought that maybe a7’s article is misleading and only refers to chardalim, or daati leumi whom the non frum term as chareidi
The report also noted that the number of charedim joining the IDF has increased and that their numbers are on track to meet the IDF’s projection. But for some reason YWN chose to hide that and to report only on the shortage of charedim choosing to do National Service.
Lenco48
Paragraph 1 I thought you were sincere. Paragraph 2 sold you out. There is face, which it seemed you were pointing out in 1, however in 2, It seems like your disdain is overriding (perhaps blinding?).
joining the army is NOT the right thing to do!!!The army is still run by the secular,Ashkenazi,anti-religious elite that while in the minority still runs way too much of Israel.20-25% of dati leumi come out of the army non-religious.The army is not a place for any frum yid-masmid or not!!!
> mbachur wrote that the non-frum refer to chardalim and daati leumi as chareidi.
>> Uh…I don’t think so. Another name for the Netzach Yehuda Battalion is the NACHAL CHAREIDI. It is universally known that the battalion recruits frum Jews across the board: chareidim (of course), and yes! chardal and dati as well. And by the way, Colonel Branski is frum — I think he knows the common Israeli nomenclature for the various streams of yidden 😉
To anyone who wishes to denigrate the IDF, please read the following:
(1) In a talk before his students during the Yom Kippur War in 1973, reprinted in his “Sichos Mussar,” the Mirrer Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Chaim Shmulevitch, likened the IDF soldiers to “Harugei Lod,” the martyrs of Lod, of whom the Talmud (Baba Batra 10b) states that: “No person is worthy of standing in their presence.”
(2) When the Gaon Rav Yisrael Gustman zt”l was returning from the cemetery for the levayah of Prof. Aumann’s son (who had fallen in battle), he gazed upon the graves on Mt. Herzl and remarked: “Kulam Kedoshim.”
Tragically, we no longer have amongst us Gedolim who did not think like the IDF denigrators of today (Rachman Litzlan).
Over 85% of the so-called Nachal Chareidi is non-Chareidi.