-- MK Ayelet Shaked (Yamina)
she is 100% correct, but how do you do that without resolving the army issue? If you just give a blanket exemption to all haredim, suddenly many other people in Israeli society will be saying they dont want to do army service and why should one be automatically exempt and not the other? That is besides for people claiming they are haredi when they are not, just to get out of service There also has to be some modicum of fairness, of shared and equal responsibility, built into the system - perhaps the blanket exemption will be replace dwith some other form of service such as National Service or Civil Service, though those tracks already exist and arent utilized either all that much.. so I am not sure how this can be accomplished
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i have an idea, why don't we create a program called "torato umanuto" and use it as cover for more or less giving a blanket exemption to charedim, without the baggage of coming out explicitly and saying so? oh i forgot, that was tried, and worked just fine for a number of years, but then a medling bagatz threw a monkey wrench in the works and yair lapid (and later avigdor lieberman) realized that there was political capitol to be gained over this issue, so screw whats good for the country, they decided to cash in for themselves.
ReplyDeleteFor good reason.
DeleteYisrael Betaynu put forth legislation that obligated everyone (including Arabs and Charedim) to do some sort of army of sherut leumi program. The Sherut Leumi would be involved in programs within and to benefit their own community. It was voted down in the Knesset.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they forget about drafting chareidim because they do not want to serve in the army in any which way and leave it be as it was originally, the status quo, of being exempt from army service. It's no one else's business. Today the army doesn't need them because of technology. H' is on the side of Israel when it respects Torah learners and public observance of the Shabbat, etc. in the Land of Israel.
ReplyDeleteThe way it was "originally," for thirty years, was that Charedim served. Period. There has never been an exemption.
DeleteAnd you do know that lots of people who serve in the IDF learn and keep Shabbat, right? The only thing those getting exemptions have going for them is the community they were born into, which is simply wrong.
No country in the world allows people to say "I don't want to."
Why should one segment of society be treated better than others?
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