The IDF’s treatment of kippah-wearing soldiers has now made it abundantly clear that the army’s public square is actively secular
Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who just a year ago called for chareidim to be wheelbarrowed to the nearest trash heap, is now reduced to mere pedestrian insults.
Acting prime minister Yair Lapid has mysteriously abandoned his campaign to draft chareidim in favor of acting prime ministerial.
So, it’s noteworthy that even as chareidi integration is yesterday’s news, the national-religious community is having its own anguished debate about army service — one that highlights exactly why chareidim aren’t rushing to the draft office.
Simply put, the way that the army treats dati-leumi soldiers broadcasts loud and clear that it’s not interested in accommodating chareidim, whatever the IDF claims to the contrary.
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