In protest against the conscription law: demonstrators from the Jerusalem faction block road 4/Walla system!
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today (Sunday) with some members of the Knesset in Torah Judaism at his office in Jerusalem. The meeting is being held as part of the effort to lead to a solution to the issue of exempting ultra-Orthodox whose "teachings are their art" from enlisting in the IDF, as well as to regulate the yeshiva budgets that were frozen following the High Court's decision.
Several Mizrahi ultra-Orthodox yeshiva leaders, including members of the Shas Torah Council, sent a scathing letter against the conscription law. Any compromise will bring destruction for generations, we will not shy away from going to prisons and all kinds of different sanctions. We are ready to hand over our souls."
"We will not shy away from going to prisons." The letter of the chairpersons/screenshot, no
The rabbis also ruled that an ultra-Orthodox boy who does not study Torah is not allowed to enlist, a strict approach that, even if it has been taken so far, has not been openly stated in such a blatant way. The rabbis even attack the possibility of promoting a law with targets and quotas as some of the ultra-Orthodox factions have already agreed.
Last month, the High Court of Justice ordered that as of April 1, the validity of the government's decision exempting ultra-Orthodox Jews from enlisting in the army will expire. In addition, yeshiva budgets for educational institutions attended by approximately 56,000 students will cease to receive government funding.
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