[HIGHLIGHTS] Security Requirements vs. Identity Preservation: What Do Experts Think About the Draft Exemption Law? | Israel Hayom

The coalition is proposing a new law that would exempt the ultra-Orthodox from being drafted into the army. The issue of haredi recruitment into the IDF is a source of a central social divide at the heart of Israeli society.

Every year, about 1,200 Haredi boys enlist in the IDF out of a yearbook of about 12,2022 boys. There is potential: "Whoever is not in the yeshiva should go to the army," says Inbar Giti, who served as Team Leader of the Service Administration at the Ministry of Defense.