As the ministerial Share the Burden Committee continues meeting, led by Minister (Yesh Atid) Yaakov Peri, it appears the ministerial have yet to reach agreement on any key matters. Much of the controversy surrounds defining the draft ceiling, in which Likud minister envision the IDF drafting as many people as it needs while the remainder are left to remain in yeshivos. Other ministers want to set a maximum number of talmidim permitted to continue learning, and the remainder, those not required by the IDF, sent to national service. There is also disagreement surrounding the definition of the deferment for those bnei yeshivos categorized as ‘masmidim’.
The disagreements are not limited to these issues alone. Bayit Yehudi for example does not want to tamper with the current arrangement for hesder talmidim while others feel hesder soldiers should serve the same as the chareidim, not less.
There is also disagreement surrounding the issue of sanctions against yeshivos and/or talmidim, and if the sanctions will be viewed as law-breaking under the penal code.
The committee is yet to seriously address the status of women in the IDF after thousands of chareidim are inducted; an issue that has some of the committee’s ministers concerned.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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According to the secular news sites, the IDF is already planning on drafting (eventually) all Hareidim and Hareidiot at 18, under the same conditions that soldiers are now drafted.
I suspect Bayit Yehudi (and some people in Likud) see where this is going and are beginning to notice a train wreck in the making. From Lapid’s point of view, the train wreck would be a feature not a bug, since he believes it will break the hareidi community once and for all, and force them to become “modern” or leave Eretz Yisrael.
#1- “According to the secular news sites, the IDF is already planning on drafting (eventually) all Hareidim and Hareidiot at 18, under the same conditions that soldiers are now drafted.”
Please cite (or better yet, provide links to) the news sites you are ‘quoting’.
And if they leave Eretz Yisrael where will they go? Back to where they came from? Lapid has no place in Eretz Yisroel, let him go back to where he came from.