The Supreme Court has instructed the government to reveal exact figures regarding the number of bnei yeshivos that have entered the IDF from 2012-2014 among all of those eligible to serve. The court was responding to a petition filed by the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) which is seeking to have the court issue an injunction to stop the draft law. The court wishes to know what percentage of the eligible bnei yeshivos population served in comparison to the general population.
The state is instructed to respond within a week, to provide exact information regarding the number of bnei yeshivos that were actually inducted among the number of eligible inductees among that population group. The petition was filed with the court in March 2014. The state told the court the numbers are changing at present and the detailed information sought by the court would not be available for a number of years.
The MQG told the court it has the most recent statistics and it is possible the state does not want the true numbers revealed. The MQG stressed in facts the numbers are available. The court instructed the state to respond within one week.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This sounds very confusing to me!?!
Such statistics are very questionable since no one has a solid definition of “hareidi.” One popular definition is that a hareidi is someone who doesn’t serve in the army for reasons based on Jewish law, meaning that no hareidi ever have, nor ever will, serve in the IDF, since if they did so they wouldn’t be considered hareidi.
Once you focus on the term “Bnei yeshiva” you encounter the problem that not all hareidim learn full time, and not all people learning in yeshiva are hareidi.
But numbers, even if meaningless, keep lawyers happy, and some social good may come from keeping lawyers happy.
This is the SCOI’s business, exactly how?
Doesn’t the deformed movemement who funds these silly organizations have anything better to do with it’s money. Probably not. I think they hate Hashem.
(Answer to define, apr. 21, 10:12)
You “THINK” they hate H-shem? They don’t even believe He exists. They also hate Judaism and everything connected with it which is why they work so hard for it’s destruction.