Israeli military says it will begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men. That could rattle the government
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week — a step that could destabilize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
The announcement followed a landmark Supreme Court order for young religious men to begin enlisting for military service. Under long-standing political arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men had been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men.
The exemptions created resentment among the general public in Israel, especially after more than nine months of war against Hamas militants in Gaza. The army summons is the beginning of a months-long enlistment process that could be difficult to enforce if there is large-scale refusal to comply. The army did not say when it expects ultra-Orthodox men to begin serving or how many it expects to enlist.
The court ruled that the system of exemptions, which allow religious men to study in Jewish seminaries while others are forced to serve in the army, was discriminatory. Ultra-Orthodox leaders say religious study is equally important for the country’s future and that their generations-old way of life will be threatened if their followers serve in the army.
Netanyahu’s government relies on the support of ultra-Orthodox parties that oppose changes to the system. Religious leaders have not said what steps they will take. If they leave the ruling coalition, the government would likely topple and the country would be plunged into early elections two years ahead of schedule.
Past attempts to enlist ultra-Orthodox men have triggered mass protests in ultra-Orthodox communities.
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men blocked a main highway in central Israel for several hours on Tuesday in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv. Police on horseback pushed the crowd back, and officers dragged protesters away. Police said nine people were arrested.
“The army is not an army for fighting. It’s an army with indoctrination” against religion, said Yona Kay, a protester. “Therefore our children, our boys — and I have a son over here — will not go to the army, not for one minute.”
On Monday night, dozens of ultra-Orthodox surrounded the cars of senior military commanders who were meeting with local rabbis in Bnei Brak to discuss an ultra-Orthodox unit in the army. The crowd threatened the officers, calling them “murderers” and throwing bottles, according to Israeli media.
Once full-scale war broke out after the State of Israel
declared its existence on May 14, 1948 [CE]
Reb Shraga Feivel’s [Mendlowitz] thoughts
were never far from Eretz Yisrael.
A group of students saw him outside the Mesivta building
one day, talking excitedly with Rabbi Gedaliah Schorr
and gesticulating rapidly with the newspaper held in his hand.
“If I were your age,” Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
told the students, “I would take a gun and go to Eretz Yisrael.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga
Feivel Mendlowitz, the architect of Torah in America
(chapter 26, page 338) by Yonoson Rosenblum for Artscroll / Mesorah,
year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsX-hrh9I2k
"They" sure know to to make them. Idiot! I hope he dies in jail!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-finds-many-yeshiva-students-working-illegally-in-violation-of-idf-exemptions
Moshe Dovid Perlstein has a lot of fight in him this season. So far at least he's not hiding after massive backlash like he reacted when asking Yeshiva World owner Eckstein to delete his vicious attack on Rechnitz when Rechnitz originally gave Musser to the selfish yeshiva admins.
https://matzav.com/matzav-inbox-a-camp-is-having-trouble-opening-then-whatsapp-came-and-destroyed-the-effort/
And he's not even hiding behind anonymity like he was doing just a week ago, threatening the Camp Malka victims that he & Hiller themselves created their victimhood.
No sir! Perlstein has now gone Full Monty on page 16 of today's Yated with one of the most ridiculous tirades you've read in a long time. He himself acknowledges he will be counterattacked for it! In the same breath he insists - please don't laugh too loud - that he's "not a fool".
Already in the very first word he has the gall to attack his Camp Malka victims as "insidious"! That's a pretty big word for him. Did he hire one of Ms. Dodelson's political strategists?
He doesn't wait long to promote himself & pat himself on the back as the baal chesed hador. This from a oisnutzer profiteer who jumped into a disaster as the ostensible hero but emerged just as repulsive as the original villain who both of them left a population of young girls without the most basic necessities of life, food, water, shelter, etc.
He lies to cover up for "VALIANT" (you read that right) Hiller that the Upstate camp was 'unavailable' only "last minute" (it was in fact prohibited to occupy the entire time).
Only a sick person could next write an attack on the parents, pinning the blame on THEM for notifying other parents of the dire chiyuv pikuach nefesh to save their daughters!
Perlstein continues lying that the parents focused all their energy on smearing him instead of doing something constructive to help the girls. As if rescuing the girls from sakonas nefoshos mamash wasn't constructive. Perlstein also pretends he was the only one who ferried supplies (which in his case were woefully inadequate while making a $mint!), makes zero mention of parents who sent large amounts of food & water at huge personal expense.
He spins the same slanderous attacks on the parents multiple times using different words to harp on it. Because it's all about him, he adds at this point, virtually painting them as Meanies with Black Souls, that they get Geshmack in publicly frying him on the internet. He's even slimy enough to insist that the youngest girls crying when camp was cancelled for their ages is 'proof' that the parents were making much ado about nothing just so that they can get their thrills bashing Perlstein & Hiller.
At the height of absurdity, Perlstein whines that if the mean spirited parents weren't upset at him & Hiller, the entire disaster would have magically bloomed into a Gan Eden. Perlstein captivates himself with hyper-exaggerated hyperbole like that the parents are hungry wolves jumping on him the prey to shred him apart. He knocks the parents as losers with low self-esteem who feed on him to make themselves feel good.
He refuses throughout to take any responsibility for his own actions but at the end finally hints that someone besides him (Hiller) may be a bad person (after first praising him as "VALIANT"), but that it's still no excuse to expose Hiller because it hurts the feelings of Hiller's mishpocho.
Smug Perlstein ends off that the way to bring Moshiach is, in a matter of words, to just suck it up to let villains like Perlstein-Hiller abuse anyone they want including your own children and that everyone needs to team up with Perlstein-Hiller to persecute anyone who dares host or write blogs & WhatsApps that blow the whistle.
He certainly did get to various blog & chat owners this past week who were pressured to remove any commentary not casting Perlstein-Hiller as Tzaddikei Yesoid Oilam!
it should be easy. Every boy picked up at one of these demonstrations is clearly not learning in yeshiva and clearly doesn't think Torah study truly protect, else he wouldn't be out there. Draft him!
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