[Audio below.] Audio recordings aired Wednesday night on Channel 12 indicate that gedolei Yisroel who support advancing a proposed conscription law see it as a temporary maneuver designed to delay action, not as a pathway toward bringing yeshiva bochurim into the IDF.
This is no surprise, as has been surmised in a number of prior extensive reports on the matter here on Matzav.com.
In the recordings, Hagaon Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch explains that his backing of the legislation is rooted in the belief that it would “buy time” for the Torah community. When asked whether yeshiva students who are not part of formal learning frameworks might eventually be drafted, he answered without hesitation: “God forbid.”
Rav Hirsch also rejected the enlistment benchmarks included in the bill, making clear that there is no intention to comply with them. “Do they think we will want to meet the target? Of course we will not want to,” he said. He went on to predict that the law would fall apart within a few years, adding, “In the meantime, we gained time.”
Similar sentiments were voiced by Hagaon Rav Dov Landau, who stated plainly that there is no plan to send chareidim to military service, including those not enrolled in yeshivos. “What they are talking about is nonsense. It will not happen. We will not go to the army; no one will go to the army,” he said.
The broadcast prompted swift political backlash. Opposition leader Yair Lapid said the recordings demonstrate that “the spiritual leaders of the chareidi parties are openly admitting that the draft-evading law is a fraud and that no chareidi youth will enlist.”
Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman delivered similar criticism, declaring, “The rabbinical council of draft evasion has revealed its true face. It’s all a bluff – no chareidi will enlist. We will continue to send our sons and daughters to the army, and they will continue to send theirs to live off the taxes we pay.”
Within the coalition, Likud MK Dan Illouz called for immediate action, saying, “I once again urge my fellow coalition members to join my demand to amend the law.”
The National Religious Reservists Forum also issued a sharp response, stating, “It’s time to stop closing our eyes and face reality. The leading chareidi authorities are openly admitting they have no intention of meeting enlistment targets and are merely stringing along the public that serves.”
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Of course, the wicked heretics don’t mention that it is they who have violated the deal that their first leader made with Agudah that Lomdei Torah will not be drafted in return for Agudah not protesting against them at the UN when they wanted to create their State.
They also don’t mention that they send their children to that army because it is what they want for their children: to make them “Israeli”. But the chareidim don’t want that for their children.
Whichever person went and recorded this under false pretenses and then sent it out to the media will have an enormous Gehenom bill waiting for him.
Who says Arutz 12 didn”t create an AI recording of the Gedolim. Prove it isn”t AI !
Temimus used to be our hallmark.
Ben Gurion agreed on 600, all there were at the time.
Now they have extended to tens of thousands, including every Chareidi, even if not learning.
There is no precedent for that and its untrue to make it sound that its all about Lomdei Torah