The time for grace has expired: this morning at 09:00 am, Speaker Gali Beharev Miara will have to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the government and explain to the High Court why ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students are not enlisting, even though the law that regulated the postponement of their service expired already last June.
As of this time, the ombudsman has already requested five times to postpone the submission of the Israeli government's position on the issue. Some of the requests for postponement were justified, since the war played out the cards and put Israel in a state of emergency. However, the army's intention is to extend the mandatory service and the reserve service for those who A servant raises the question whether it is not true that the government will already make a decision on the issue.
In her latest request to postpone the submission of the government's position on the issue, Rahab Miara wrote: "According to what was communicated by the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Defense, this question is currently being discussed at the political level, including the most senior, and in the political field, And great efforts are being made to make decisions as soon as possible by the authorized parties.
Considering the nature of the discourse, as of the time of writing these lines, it is not possible to specify a final timetable for making decisions on the issue."
Haredim recruitment, the Supreme Court, soldiers/image processing, Reuven Castro, IDF spokesman
Along with the fact that the public debate on the subject arouses many emotions, it is worth knowing the data on the subject.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the ultra-Orthodox make up about 13% of the total population in Israel, while according to the data published by the IDF - in last December's recruitment, only 188 ultra-Orthodox recruits were recruited. From the data published regarding complete recruitment data, it appears that in 2020, 1,193 ultra-Orthodox were recruited into the IDF. to, who make up only 15 percent of the boys who graduate from the ultra-orthodox education system.
With the outbreak of the war, however, there was a change in the degree of motivation among the sector, according to the IDF report, more than two thousand ultra-Orthodox expressed a desire to enlist. This, while in practice only about 120 ultra-Orthodox men were recruited.
In addition to all of the above, due to the fact that there was no change in political positions, the spokesman Shit is expected to once again request a postponement of the submission of the government's position that is dragging its feet on this sensitive issue.
Now, it remains to be seen how the Supreme Court of Justice will react.
Along with the petition submitted by the movement for the quality of government, brothers to arms and other petitioners, another petition was submitted by the civil democratic movement that deals with the legality of the budgeting of ultra-orthodox yeshiva, to which the ombudsman will also have to respond tomorrow.
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