In an unusual move, which may develop into a new political crisis, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has refused to allow 1,000 yeshiva students to be exempted from military service.
The minister usually approves the addition of new yeshivas to the arrangement automatically, but this time Barak decided to refrain from doing so.
“The Defense Ministry will not longer be a rubber stamp and will not approve each and every request to shirk military duty,” a security source told Ynet.
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With the quick exit of lots of secular Jews to greener pastures outside of ISRAEL, the remaining young men are religious and they will end up being the ‘soldiers of hashem’ in the IDF. So Barak is just rushing the happening.
EB always hated frumme yidden.
wats up with the racism
may g-d give in his heart a hirur teshuva already whith all other rashaim.