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The army must soon begin enlisting ultra-Orthodox men. How will that work?
Jeremy Sharon
July 1, 2024
In a straightforward but massively consequential ruling, the High Court of Justice last week ordered the state to begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students into the military…There are currently 63,000 such men who are eligible for army service and now liable to be drafted, according to the court’s ruling and the attorney general’s orders. But according to Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, head of the religion and state program at the Israel Democracy Institute, there are another 14,000 young Haredi men who will turn 18 during the course of the current enlistment year…READ MORE
i24NEWS IDF to issue draft orders for 3,000 ultra-Orthodox men After the Supreme Court ruled ultra-Orthodox men must also serve, IDF prepares to summon thousands of yeshiva students