Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday mandating the draft of bnei yeshivos and the halt of funding to yeshivos, the office of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who was hired to represent the government but instead works against it, wrote a letter to the IDF demanding that it immediately implement the Court’s ruling.
Baharav-Miara ordered the army to immediately draft 3,000 bnei yeshivos and warned the government not to continue funding yeshivos serving students eligible for the draft “directly or indirectly.”
Meanwhile, a senior coalition member told Channel 14 News that the Attorney-General’s decision to strip funding to yeshivos is based on a very shaky legal foundation – an obscure clause in the Law of Military Service that she chose to interpret in a manner consistent with her view.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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If they can only draft 3000 Bnei Torah why does ALL funding need to be halted? – NOTHING ELSE THAN PURE HATRED WITH CLEAR INTENTION TO DESTROY TORAH AND YIDDISHKEIT – INSTEAD OF CREATING ZECHUSIM FOR THE DANGEROUS UPCOMING LEBANON WAR THEY RATHER HAVE THE COUNTRY BURNING CHOLILOH THAN SEEING THE CHAREIDIM BEING SUCCESSFUL WITH THEIR TORAH & MITZVOS
Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE] Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts were never far from Eretz Yisrael.
A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.
“If I were your age,” he [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] told the students,
“I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America (chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana, ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
PS: If you doubt that this quote is accurate,
then I invite you to get your hands on a copy
of that book, and turn to the chapter number
and page number that I indicated.
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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE. His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years. He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.” He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.
“Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who was hired to represent the government but instead works against it,”
Actually, the Attorney General is hired to ADVISE the gov’t but is to represent the people of Israel, the US, NY State, etc.
That’s why a sitting president’s son could be indicted and prosecuted by the Attorney General, an action which I am sure you would agree with.
“Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who was hired to represent the government but instead works against it,” Actually, the Attorney General is hired to ADVISE the gov’t but is to represent the people of Israel, the US, NY State, etc.
That’s why a sitting president’s son (Biden’s) could be indicted and prosecuted by the Attorney General, an action which I am sure you would agree with.
Another zionist antisemite.
Interesting that many ask why not Arabs. But I have a bigger question – why not the youth in Tel Aviv? They are the big liberals and the ones screaming loudest why the chareidm don’t serve. Yet they have the lowest percentage of enlistment for any town in Israel. Even way lower than the present percentage of chareidi enlistment.
Check it out – less than 50% join the army. They are “conscientious objectors” and they are allowed to get away with that – but not the chareidim.
It’s all about sinas hadaas – period.
@natboy, false. Tel Aviv enlistment rate is at 76.8%, while Bnei Brak rate is at 15.7%
the proof its shamd as arabs get benefits but dont serve
Just in case anyone believed that the objections to universal public service were based on assuring that those shteiging in kollel could continue their limud torah, a senior Shas Rav (Moshe Maya) told Kol Baramah Radio yesterday that the Religious Party objections to serving even extended to the thousands of fakshteigers (aka fake shteigers) who do not actually attend yeshivos but fraudulently claim exemptions. Maya insisted that these lying bochurim should also be entitled to a permanent exemption from the draft while others risk their lives to defend the country.
If I remember correctly, the number of Jews learning in Yeshivah, in Israel, right now, who are of age to be drafted, is around 66,000. From among those 3,000 will be drafted.
If we divide 66,000 by 3,000, the result we get is that 1 out of every 22 Jews learning in Yeshivah, right now, who are of age to be drafted, will be drafted into the Israeli Army.
Is 1 out of every 22 Jews learning in Yeshivah being drafted into the Israeli Army really a “Gezairas Shmad” and “Anti-Semitism”?
If they really wanted to make a “Gezairas Shmad”, then they would draft 22 out of 22 into the Army, not only 1 out of 22.
Pleaser think about that for just 15 seconds. Thank you.
@SQUARE_ROOT
YOU can go and fight in the army. And we will join the fight in Beis Medrash.
Silly. As if 3000 soldiers will make a difference vs the entire Arab nation which will set upon us for going against God?
The חשמונאים fought the Syrian-Greeks – and they were kohanim. This is one way of looking at it. One could retort, however, that as the original חסידים, they were waging a religious war. I accept this, but we cannot ignore the fact that Israel is now waging a war for her very survival – and that is no exaggeration.
Learning is wonderful and the Torah is חַיֵּֽינוּ וְאֹֽרֶךְ יָמֵֽינוּ, of course. Equally, the Torah enjoins us לֹֽא־תַֽעֲמֹד עַל־דַּם רֵעֶךָ. Rashi explains: לִרְאוֹת בְּמִיתָתוֹ וְאַתָּה יָכוֹל לְהַצִּילוֹ. So then, when we are dealing with an existential threat, with the possibility of annihilation (גאָט בּאַהיט זייַן) – so clearly an issue of פיקוח נפש on so grand a scale, does it not behoove us as Jews to serve or to lend our support to those who serve?
@square root
Don’t be so myopic. Today it’s 3000, tomorrow, it will be more…and yes 3000 is also a shmad.
Halt all funding to 66,000 individuals, to force 3000 to enlist. Is that a normal democratic method? That’s shmad for sure.
Compare to the 40,000 evaders among the chilonim, why are they focusing on charedim?
And why did they send so many reservists home?