{"id":1473695,"date":"2024-06-27T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1473695"},"modified":"2024-06-27T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T05:20:00","slug":"court-orders-israel-army-to-start-drafting-ultra-orthodox-compounding-internal-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/court-orders-israel-army-to-start-drafting-ultra-orthodox-compounding-internal-tensions\/1473695\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Israel Army To Start Drafting Ultra-Orthodox, Compounding Internal Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Court Orders Israel Army To Start Drafting Ultra-Orthodox, Compounding Internal Tensions<\/span><\/p>\n

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In an historic development that promises to fuel friction between different elements of the country’s society, the Israeli high court on Tuesday unanimously ruled that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) must start drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish students<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Until now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s commitment to maintaining the decades-long draft exemption has been a key means of earning the support of two ultra-Orthodox parties that are building blocks of his ruling coalition. While there’s nowhere for those two parties to flee in pursuit of restoring the exemption, the ruling seemingly removes one of the ties that binds the parties to Netanyahu<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outside an IDF induction center, protesters of Haredim draft exemptions push mock coffins\u00a0<\/strong>(Mothers at the Front)<\/a><\/p>\n

In their 9-0 ruling, the court noted the ongoing demands of Israel’s 8-month-old war on Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 invasion of southern Israel.\u00a0\u201cIn the middle of a difficult war, the burden of inequality is felt more acutely than ever<\/strong>\u2014and it requires advancing a sustainable solution to this issue,\u201d the justices wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As casualties have mounted in Gaza, long-simmering resentment of the exemption that covers some 1.3 million ultra-Orthodox Jews — or Haredi — has only grown.<\/strong> In addition to protests in the streets, high-ranking Israeli officials have called for an end to the special treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war and the challenges placed before us\u2026 require us to share the burden of military service,\u201d said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in March. \u201cEveryone must carry the burden, all sectors of the nation.\u201dAt the same event, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi declared that the Haredi exemption was undermining Israel’s “social cohesion.”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haredi Jews in Jerusalem burn the Israeli flag in protest against the new Israeli government conscription law, which mandates their enlistment in the occupation army due to the war on Gaza. pic.twitter.com\/bDPKfWEbJF<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The draft is just one facet of the Haredi’s special treatment in Israel. Haredi men who are enrolled in Yeshiva schools — to study the Torah — have also received public subsidies<\/strong> that keep going all the way until they reach the country’s standard retirement age of 67.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s makes these men doubly detractive: They’re economically unproductive, while also draining resources from those who contribute to the country’s economy. Meanwhile,\u00a0Haredi children are exempt from Israel’s educational standards.<\/strong>\u00a0Since they\u00a0don’t have to study<\/a>\u00a0core topics like math, science and English, they offer lesser skills to would-be employers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We will die and not enlist’
\nThousands of haredim who are affiliated with the Jerusalem Faction gathered outside the Jerusalem Enlistment Center on Thursday to protest against the enlistment of haredim to the IDF.
\n\ud83c\udfa5 Matanel Rahamim pic.twitter.com\/Gi5TNwGPOs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) April 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday’s court ruling also landed a broadside hit on the wealth transfers,\u00a0<\/strong>declaring that funding of students who don’t have a bona fide military exemption are illegal too.\u00a0Responding to the high court’s ruling, the chairman of one of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties reiterated the argument that Haredi men’s full-time study of Judaism’s holy books makes an important contribution to Israel<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Jewish people survived persecutions, pogroms and wars only thanks to maintaining their uniqueness, the Torah and the commandments. This is our secret weapon against all enemies, as promised by the Creator of the universe,\u201d Shas chair Aryeh Deri told the Times of Israel<\/a>. “[Yeshiva students]\u00a0preserve our special power and generate miracles in the [military] campaign.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rather than resolving the issue, the ruling will likely inflame tension. “[It] creates an ongoing, endemic crisis<\/strong> that will probably continue to escalate,” Yohanan Plesner, president of the Jerusalem-based Israel Democracy Institute, told the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/26\/2024 – 21:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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