Anonymous ID: 29cca7 Aug. 9, 2025, 5:54 a.m. No.23444324   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4333

Haredi newspapers declare ‘war’ over IDF enlistment efforts, prompting outrage

 

Flagship newspapers of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties declared “war” Thursday morning on efforts to enforce draft orders for Haredi men, prompting an outcry from both coalition and opposition lawmakers.

 

The headlines were printed after two yeshiva students were arrested on Wednesday for evading the draft. Following the arrests, a spokesman for Rabbi Dov Lando, spiritual leader for the United Torah Judaism party’s Degel HaTorah faction, said Israel had “declared war on yeshiva students.”

 

The banner headlines in Shas’s HaDerech and Degel Hatorah’s Yated Neeman papers were both laid out in bold white letters on a black background: Yated Neeman’s front page said simply “War,” while HaDerech’s read, “A war for God,” while adding that the Haredi world was “prepared for a fierce struggle.”

 

HaMevaser, a paper affiliated with MK Meir Porush of UTJ’s Agudat Yisrael faction, also called the situation a “war,” railing against the “conscription decree” and topping its front page with a quote from the Passover Haggadah about the enemies of the Jewish people “rising up to destroy us” throughout history.

 

Shas and UTJ are at the forefront of a fight to pass legislation legalizing the de facto military draft exemptions ultra-Orthodox men have enjoyed for decades. After that arrangement was struck down by the High Court of Justice last year, the army began sending out and enforcing draft orders while, in tandem, a battle began in the Knesset over how to regulate Haredi enlistment.

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-newspapers-declare-war-over-idf-enlistment-efforts-prompting-outrage/

 

anon opine:

bibi has pissed off both sides of the asile by trying to draft ultra orthodox men into the idf.

so when they start throwing molotov cocktails all over the world you know why.