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💭   Perpetuating draft evasion through legislative tricks

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As IDF soldiers and reservists are dying in battle on a near-daily basis, and as tens of thousands of reservists are being called up for a third and even fourth round of duty – spending close to 250 days over the past few years fighting, first in the Gaza border communities, then in Gaza itself, and now in Lebanon – United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf acted wisely on Monday in stepping back from conditioning support for the 2025 budget on a bill that would formalize exemption from army service for tens of thousands of haredim.At least Goldknopf had that much self-awareness.Pushing legislation granting wholesale IDF exemptions at a time when so many are sacrificing so much ...

Jerusalem Post     Oct 29, 2024