Chareidi MKs entered the coalition with one job— regulate the legal status of Torah learners— and they failed, big-time
Tens of thousands of draft orders are queued up in the IDF’s computerized system. Thousands have already been issued, and thousands will go out this week, but tens of thousands more are set for rollout over the next few months.
It’s now official and irreversible — every single Torah learner in Israel will receive a draft order in the mail over the coming months, making them criminals in the Jewish state.
Beyond the petty politics and the halfhearted resignations by the chareidi parties from the government, the immediate result of the Knesset’s summer session ending next Sunday without a law regulating the status of yeshivah students is that all bnei yeshivah will become criminals under Israeli law, without exception.
It would be hard to exaggerate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Yuli Edelstein’s manipulation of his chareidi colleagues, but it should be remembered that the mistakes started at home. Chareidi MKs entered the coalition with one job — regulate the legal status of Torah learners — and they failed, big time.
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