The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held another discussion on the draft conscription law on Wednesday.
Lt. Col. Avigdor Dikstein, the head of the Chareidi sector in the Manpower Directorate of the IDF, presented updated data on the recruitment of Chareidim to the committee, saying that of 10,000 draft orders sent since July 2024, only 205 Chareidim enlisted.
He added that a total of 1721 Chareidim are serving as soldiers since the beginning of last year’s recruitment cycle.
There is approximately 66,000 bnei yeshivos who are currently eligible for IDF service but have not enlisted.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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When will they enlist already
Shivyon beneitel
Nefesh yehudi homiyah
Reishit tzmichat galoooteinu
Avigdor Dikstein…. we are starting with the weak…2000 men already shmad we sent out for 10000 we will get some more of the weak for shmad 66000 to go. Already stated that we don’t plan on making things okay for the charedim, to many already shmad from disgusting. Keep up the good work
My son just finished 300 days in Miluim. I have zero sympathy for those who claim to be sitting and learning but aren’t. Send them to the army. Until that happens, the charedim are simply occupying the moral low ground.
@aml.
why did you send the to miluim??
send him to yeshive.
even if he only learns a bit it stil better then nothing.
army is also not good for yirat shomayim. many guys went off the d trhere.
benet. yariv levin. gilad aerdan yitchak amit and many more grow up with smiras t and mitsvos and are now lost why ?because idf. its a very bad place to bee in.
why dond you move out of israel its beter to be jewich in us then asimilated in israel
Shut up with your Kefira, as if your sons Miluim is better than even 5 minutes of learning Torah. Go ahead and worship the Army because that’s your God, worship the people that send them to die so they could save the terrorists wife, worship the army that serves a government more concerned about the terrorists in jail than our soldiers lives. Hope your son doesn’t die for them
So sad that so many think they are above defending our land.
its disgusting that they live off the fat of the land, take subsidies from the government and then refuse to do their part!! Why should every dati leumi guy go to the army whilst continuing with their Torah learning (many of whom gave up their lives) and these lazy guys walk around Jerusalem and dodge the army! For the few who are serious there could be exceptions but the rest should either be arrested or kicked out the country if they dont go the army. They are an absolute chillul Hashem! DISGRACEFUL!!! ARREST THESE CRIMINALS!!! And by the way – if you live in America or anywhere else outside of Israel please do not post your comments because you have no right to tell us how our sons should behave !
Let’s think about this logically and step by step….
1) The Vilna Gaon and many others clearly state that just before Moshiach comes, the primary enemy will be the Erev Rav i.e. Jews who will wage a war against the Torah world. They will eventually be eradicated.
2) Never before has there been such a clear split between the Jewish people…you either support the Yeshiva world and their continued learning no matter what…or you call for them all to draft and support Lapid, Lieberman and Gali. There is no in between!
3) Let’s put the above 2 points together. Now, it’s quite hard to believe that the Yeshiva Bochrim learning 18 hours a day and the gedolim such as Rav Landau who hasn’t stopped learning in 90+ years qualify as the Erev Rav who are fighting against Torah!! So by simple deduction we can conformably conclude who the Erev Rav is today!
4) Based on the above it’s safe to assume that if you are now on the side of the fence calling for a reduction in learning, calling for the Yeshiva’s to close their doors, stating that the Gedolim are all wrong c’v, stating that our real power is in the army, stating that bochrim must draft -even if it means that they will end up chiloni etc etc….then you have a BIG PROBLEM and should do some serious thinking and Teshuva before Moshiach arrives and it’s too late for you!!!
“For the few who are serious there could be exceptions..”
You are an absolute clown a loser and a hater go to any of the yeshivis gedolos and get knocked off your feet
Zionists the amalek of the dor
As a Jew living in America I demand the israeli government stop drafting religious Jews until the Supreme Court becomes Chareidi.
aml your son can do teshuva and quit this treifa of an army and join the beis medrash. I have cousins in Israel a family of 9 and not one male has served in the shmad army and are happy learning and protecting through their Torah. We frum will not serve in the IDF period, our avoda is learning we give the Zionists a zchus by learning.
>Go ahead and worship the Army because that’s your
I strongly condemn the criminal behavior of fringe youths who attacked IDF soldiers in the city of Bnei Brak today,” Minister Goldknopf wrote on X. “This is not the derech of Torah Yidden. We owe hakaras hatov to IDF soldiers, who put their lives on the line to protect Klal Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.”
I would suggest drafting these youth as they are clearly not in learning and did not learn right derech. Of course, presuming Tzahal needs soldiers like that.
What’s disgusting is ur at ease spitting in the face of all the Gedolei yisrael, including rav ovadia yosef. You’re going to beg their forgiveness in hell but it won’t help you then
ואהבת לרעך כמוך
That’s 205 too many.
rebemes and lakewoodbt- those serving on miluim are putting their lives on the line and sacrificing so much doing the hishtadlus al pi teva to protect all of us in Israel, Charedi and DL and Chiloni alike, from our genocidal enemies. You may not agree with that derech, but hakaras hatov is the only proper reaction to hearing about someone 300 days on the front. If you can’t do the proper hakaras hatov, than the bare minimum would be to be silent instead of spitting in the face and condemning those who sacrificed so much.
There is no derech hateva in Israel. No army in the world has such low casualties. The reason is תורה מגנא ומצלא. Torah is what saves the Jewish nation. The תפילות that the בני ישיבה daven and learn is what saves us. It’s like taking the personnel of the Secret Service and switching them to infantry. Unfortunately, casualties grew when the Israeli dictators started with the בני תורה. Saying all that, we still need to have הכרת הטוב for those that serve. I personally know of בחורים who take upon themselves to learn for specific soldiers. But a רשע like Lieberman, whom I doubt is even Jewish, calls for one of the גדולי תורה to be arrested is discusting.
Chevra, have some basic respect.
To defend and protect Jews and our land is a massive mitzvah according to all gedolim. I have friends and neighbors who lost children, who left behind almanos and yesomim. Who took bullets and were permanently injured. Who did over 400 days of reserves and came back with no business to return to.
The mesiras nefesh of hundreds of thousands of our fellow Jews is remarkable. This doesn’t mean that all yeshivas should be closed. But it’s a BUSHA when these same heroes return home for their monthly visit, and are competing with yeshiva guys who got a ptur, and are out going on tiyulim in the middle of the zman, for seats on a bus or on a tremp. This isn’t an occasional scenario. It’s something that those of us living here encounter daily.
There are thousands of guys partying thanks to their ptur because they are learning. This is sheker. And it has no place in our people.
Maybe yeshiva bochrum should get a ptur, maybe not all should. That’s for bigger people than you and I to debate.
But the amount of fraud in the system is massive. And trust me, everyone in country sees it. We see it on the streets, on the buses and trains, and yes, on the beaches of Tel Aviv.