Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Benny Gantz have formed a committee to consider reforms to Israel’s military and national service drafts, and potentially expanding the national service requirement into a mandatory program, Times of Israel reports.
The committee will “consider adjustments to IDF service and national and civil service, building a new, broad and updated framework, which addresses the needs of national security, the economy, and Israeli society, for the diverse groups in its population, which will have broad national appeal,” according to a joint statement from the Prime Minister’s Office and Defense Ministry.
Gantz and the director-general of his ministry, Amir Eshel, have both come out in favor of a universal national service model to replace the current system, which exempts Arab Israelis and nearly all chareidim from having to perform either military or civil service. Gantz’s general plan for national service, which he released earlier this year, would ultimately require all Israelis to perform some form of national service after high school, barring an outstanding reason preventing it.
{Matzav.com Israel}
There is not that far of a divide between lapid and Bennett
So, bottle cap has now turned completely against chareidim. Being that he’s married to a cheloni who doesn’t even keep Shabbos r”l, this doesn’t come as a surprise.
TORAH STUDY needs to be designated as a national service!!!!
THE CONSCRIPTION LAW IS RACIST AND ILLEGAL, SINCE IT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST JEWS. ARABS ARE NOT CALLED UP. EVERY JEW SHOULD REFUSE TO BE CONSCRIPTED – NO’ WE WON’T GO!
ISRAEL AND NORTH KOREA ARE THE ONLY COUNTRIES WITH FORCED CONSCRIPTION FOR WOMEN.
THE SENSIBLE THING WOULD BE TO ABOLISH CONSCRIPTION AND CREATE A PROFESSIONAL ARMY.