Deputy Prime Minister (Shas) Eli Yishai on Monday, visited the “Sucker’s Tent” in Yerushalayim.
The senior minister’s tone was not explanatory or apologetic, but rather quite the contrary as he called to remove “the masks of hypocrisy from the faces of elected officials”.
Yishai explained how many chareidim have in the past and currently serve, and many many are waiting but they are simply not activated. He insists that presently, there are literally thousands of chareidim prepared and awaiting enlistment but the military does not call them to service, rejecting the validity of the campaign against the chareidi tzibur at large.
He called on Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz to immediately call up the thousands of chareidim who want to serve and are not permitted to do so. He attacked the bill presented to Knesset by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s party to replace the Tal Law, which Yishai feels is “populist and intended to earn Yisrael Beitenu points in the election campaign”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Hopefully this is not true. Frum Jews are better off not participating in any way in the Army or in any other isntitution of the Zionist State. Zoinism’s Goal is to do away with Jdiasem and to take Jews away from their religion. We should not let ourselves fall into any of their traps. We should also not let ourselves be associated in any way with the Zionists or their state.
This happens from time to time. The charaydi (whatever that means!) have to call the bluff of the lo dati and all of a sudden the lo dati cower in the corner like a beaten dog.
Zionism’s goal is not to do away with Judaism. If it was Israel wouldn’t be the heartland of the Torah world, with lots of government money funding it all.
Most Baal ha-Batim would prefer to serve, and to be able to gets jobs anywhere in the Israeli economy. If the army decided to accomodate them, the rest of the economy would have to. If you get a situation in which all Israeli corporations and government agencies were run in such a manner that Hareidim could work there, Israel would be a Jewish state – which is the last thing the secular zionist elite want. Any accomodation of halacha is denounced as “coercion.”
#3 Zionism’s goal is indeed to do away with Judiasem, and the government funding is because:
1. They need the religious parties in their Coalitions.
2. It gives Zionists the position to say that Frum Jews depend on them (and are parasites…) a situation which Avrohom Avinu avoided by not taking any money from Sdom.
When the IDF becomes religious-friendly then the doors to enlistment will be knocked down. The military route is the best, easiest and cheapest for an academic degree and future parnossa.
well, your logic on eretz yisroel is as valid s the spelling of your web name…..old Fassioned Jew…..
While in the early years of the state the leaders were virulently anti religious, I don’t think the situation is the same nowadays, and if enough shomrei torah umitzvos go to the army It would create a good environment, besides we have to share the burden of protecting the country just like the rest of the nation