MK Yitzchok Pindrus of Degel HaTorah said that the proposed draft law supported by the leadership of Degel HaTorah and Shas is intended solely for genuine yeshiva students whose full-time occupation is Torah learning, and not for the broader chareidi public.
Speaking during a Hebrew interview Monday with Kikar HaShabbat, Pindrus addressed the ongoing debate surrounding the proposed legislation regulating the status of bnei yeshiva and military deferments.
Pindrus stressed that the purpose of the law is to allow only serious lomdei Torah to postpone army service, while those who are not actively learning would retain the same legal status as any other Israeli of draft age.
“There is a law that we requested and that also existed in the past,” Pindrus said. “The law is very, very clear — only for someone who is learning and whose Torah is his occupation. The clear demand is a law only for those who are learning.”
According to Pindrus, anyone who is not genuinely engaged in Torah study would not qualify for deferment under the proposed arrangement.
“Someone who is not learning — his legal status is exactly as it was during the time of Rav Shach,” he said. “Only a yeshiva student will be able to defer his military service.”
{Matzav.com}
I doubt that anyone would not be considered a yeshiva bochur in any chareidi community.
Sounds nice to secular ears but the army today is no place for a frum boy. Tznius, kashrus, Shabbos, nivul peh – the tip of the iceberg. Even the Dati soldiers complain.
Sheker. It’s nothing different then they hear in the streets. Dati soldiers don’t complain about it because they heard and saw it all before joining the IDF. Kashrus and shabbos aren’t an issue at all.
Oh, yeah? Well, I personally know quite a few young men from frum homes who chose to serve and there’s no way a frum bochur can manage there. These boys are no longer chareidi and some were directed to the frum divisions, some not, but they’re drifting further away as time passes. For all the reasons I listed and others that I didn’t. (Take the Moshiach patch as just the latest…)
Dati Leumi is a far cry from chreidi boys/young men – different values and different hashkofos. Chas veshalom for non-Torah learners to go to such a tamei army where only 20% of religious boys come home religious, Hashem yerachem.
It never was a place for frum anyone, of course. The singular purpose of the movement, State and army is shmad, to convert Jew and Judaism into godless nationalism.