During a meeting of the Shaked Committee addressing the chareidi draft bill, Shas MK Yisrael Atias spoke of concerns surrounding the drafting an avreich and his difficulty in finding a shidduch as a result.
Using his Facebook page to sum up the meeting, Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi writes that “on the one side there are four of us who serve in the paratroops. We cannot accept the draft dodging – Elazar Stern, Ofir Shelach, Moti Yogev and me. On the other side the MKs from chareidi parties who feel an obligation to defend the lifestyle they represent.”
“While the argument takes place in the same language, the gap that divides us appears insurmountable. One example is that MK Atias stated an avreich who is drafted will have trouble finding a shidduch. I respond by saying a non-frum boy who is drafted and falls in battle will also have trouble finding a shidduch.”
Hanegbi then refers to Gafne, who stated they cannot impose a decree that the public cannot comply with. “I say to him that his constituents cannot stand by while the non-frum carry the military burden alone and so on and so forth as we continue efforts to bridge the gaps.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The arguments advanced by the Chareidi MKs are krum, ridiculous and hence a chillul Ha’Shem.
Ye, of course, AThought is already posting one of his outrageous posts the just make his opponents even angrier.
I have a number of friends who have children that have served in the Army and are very happily married with children. I think this argument is so far out it makes these MKs look self centered. Oh wait a minute……
Who is trying to bridge the gaps? By means of what? Drafting? Which normal parent out of love to his child will place him in a battle field? The parents themselves should go instead if so, no?
At least two sides are talking, perhaps hearing and maybe understanding. Those are all LARGE LEAPS!!!
Kol hakovod to MK Hanegbi for speaking out so clearly and forcefully about the fundamental divisions surrounding the draft issue. When I first read the shidduch comment earlier today I thought it was a bad joke. Sadly its not. Who would possibly compare the tragedy of a bochur who is killed defending the medinah with one having difficulty finding an equally selfish kalah who values someone who refused to contribute to the defense of his family and country. Such selfishness should rightfully be “rewarded” with many years of searching for a shidduch.
Whats all the beating around the bush, the problem with the army is that the chilonim want to use this to to make them irreligious. In the 1950 there were plenty of frume in the army there is a reason its not like that today dont make like we were always friends
Halevai the only concern for charedi draft would be the shidduch.
Hanegbi does make some good points, whether or not you agree with him. It’s always important to understand the other’s perspective so that you can see what can be done that might satisfy them while preserving your own core interests. If nothing else, it allows you to articulate your own views in a way that the other might actually respect them, rather than allowing them to write you off as some unrealistic, off-the-wall nut.
an Israeli Yid
Tzvitzvi (#3), the “I” in IDF stands for Israel (the Jewish nation and land) and the “D” stands for defense. Parents who regard these things as holy causes accept and support their children in serving. Israeli parents do not “place” their children there; the children are drafted and don’t shray gevald about it. And as for whether “the parents themselves should go instead,” they already did.