The Haredi community believes full-time Torah study protects the country more than its military ever could.
In four minutes it will be Good Friday. Never before in modern history has a group of religious Jews been given modern weapons and a fully equipped military in order to destroy a country, and – even use atomic bombs to do so! The Haredi youth put Netanyahu n power – and kept him there! Now that they have to serve in the military, they might turn on him, and get him out of office. This suggests they could have protested against the Invasion of Gaza, and stopped the killing of woman and children. They should do a Holy Resignation – for failing to do their job! Are they going to claim, their prayers and Bible study was excellent – but their God didn’t do His job? Did their God do His job when he allowed them to be defeated by the Romans – for worshipping foreign Roman and Greek gods? Read your Bible! Their God lost several big wars and the Jews lost their Promised Land. God is never to blame.
“The Haredi community believes full-time Torah study protects the country more than its military ever could.“
We hippies would have done this. These are God’s Deadly Killers in sheep’s clothing. Instead of fighting and dying, they believe their religious prayers have the power – TO KILL!
For twenty years I have warned Mark Gall these religious fanatics – will destroy Israel! I was right. Let’s hope they are kept away from atomic weapons. How like ISIS they are. How dare they let Harvard BE ATTACKED BY FELLOW JEWS, one being a Black Woman. This is why non-Jews do not like Jews. They form these Holy Collectives that only Jews can be members of, and pass judgement. They are fully aware most Black People oppose them – just because they are black. Does it enrage them that millions of Black People – know their Bible? Did they jump up and down with glee when our Supreme Court repealed Roe vs.Wade, and made Holy Laws in our Democracy?
The Pope will be doing a lot of praying for peace, knowing the followers of the Abrahamic religions, are serial killer trouble-makers! Enough! Where was God’s HELP on October 7th?
“The Haredi community believes full-time Torah study protects the country more than its military ever could.”
John Nazarite
Israeli High Court brings Haredi draft exemption to a legal end — with unclear consequences
The practical implications of the decision remain up in the air
Haredi Jewish boys and men clashed with police earlier in March while protesting against the expiration of a law preventing them from being drafted into the IDF. Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images
JERUSALEM — A decision by Israel’s High Court of Justice will bring the country’s 76-year-old policy of excusing nearly all Haredi men from its compulsory draft close to an end — at least on paper, and at least temporarily.
The Thursday night court order came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far failed to broker a consensus within his government about continuing to exempt young Haredi men from military service, prompting the court to rule the government no longer has a legal basis to keep funding their yeshiva study.
Legally, it means some yeshiva students could have to put down their scripture and take up arms as soon as this Monday, April 1.
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But practically, political and legal experts say, questions remain about how Netanyahu’s coalition government will respond to the ruling as its deadline for a new legislative proposal approaches this Sunday. Questions also remain about how the Israel Defense Forces might ultimately implement the legal — and still-potential legislative — change in policy.
The draft exemption dates back to Israel’s founding in 1948, when founding leader David Ben-Gurion agreed to exempt yeshiva boys from military service as part of a deal to secure political support from Haredi leaders. The Haredi community believes full-time Torah study protects the country more than its military ever could.
An estimated 66,000 Haredi Israeli men between 18 and 26 years old are currently exempted from the draft and receiving government subsidies to attend yeshivas — whether or not they’re actually doing so for at least 45 hours a week, as the law requires.
The United Torah Judaism Party on Thursday accused the court of waging “an all-out struggle” against Torah study.
A poll by the Israel Democracy Institute shows 70% of Israeli Jews support ending the longstanding blanket exemption from military service for Haredim, up from 60% in 2018.
The High Court had previously ruled in 1998 and 2017 that the draft loophole violates the right of the Israeli majority to equal treatment under the law. Several governments since have tried but failed to come up with a fair and lasting solution. The court gave Netanyahu’s government until June of last year to come up with a new policy, but his coalition then gave itself until the end of this month to do so. The issue played a part in last year’s judicial overhaul crisis, when Haredi politicians sought to override the High Court’s decision to strike down the exemption.
Netanyahu, in trying to broker a consensus within his government, has not managed to break an impasse between Haredi parties that want to extend the draft loophole, and ultranationalists opposed to their special treatment. His governing coalition relies on the support of both groups; the impasse threatens to unravel it at a time when the war in Gaza and conflicts at the Lebanon border and in the West Bank have left the IDF short on troops.
Critics of the exemption include Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, a key architect of the Gaza operation, and National Unity Party Leader Benny Gantz — both among the five members of Netanyahu’s war cabinet. Gantz lauded the ruling via social media late Thursday.
Three times in the last 24 hours, Netanyahu sought a court extension to delay the deadline to come up with a plan. The latest of those requests came Thursday afternoon, when, in a rare letter directly to the court seeking a 30-day postponement, he wrote that distractions created by overseeing the war have kept his coalition government from reaching a consensus on a new policy.
The letter marked an end-run around Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, who represents the government but refused to ask for a delay as Sunday’s deadline nears. Baharav-Miara’s office, in the meantime, wrote the court Thursday saying the state will be legally obligated to start drafting Haredim on Monday, because there no longer will be a legal basis for paying their monthly stipends for the yeshiva study that exempts them from the draft.
The court agreed with Baharav-Miara in a ruling a few hours later.
Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition notoriously antagonized Israel’s judicial branch by trying to curtail its power last year. Those efforts triggered the biggest anti-government protests in the nation’s history. Protests died down after Hamas’ attack and massacre on Oct. 7, but have been picking up as Sunday’s draft exemption deadline nears.
Israel’s air force on Wednesday continued to pound the Gaza Strip with strikes, and Hamas fighters kept up attacks against Israeli soldiers, a further indication that a United Nations Security Council resolution this week calling for a cease-fire had failed to persuade either side as attempts for an agreement appeared to falter.
Over the two days since the U.N. resolution passed on Monday, the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, has said it is continuing to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military said on Wednesday that warplanes had hit dozens of targets over the previous day, including tunnels, military compounds and militants.
Israel has been outspoken in its condemnation of the Security Council resolution, which called for a cease-fire for the remaining weeks of Ramadan that would lead to a “lasting, sustainable” halt in the fighting and the unconditional release of all hostages held by militants in Gaza. The United States, which has vetoed previous attempts, abstained, allowing the resolution to pass.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, met in Jerusalem on Wednesday with Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, and continued to express defiance over the U.S. decision. He argued, according to a statement from his office, that it encouraged “Hamas to take a hard line and to believe that international pressure will prevent Israel from freeing the hostages and destroying Hamas.”
Israel and Hamas appear no closer to negotiating a stop in fighting, with significant gaps remaining between them.
On Wednesday, three Palestinian human rights groups said that there had been an intensification of Israeli bombardments on Rafah over the previous 72 hours, killing dozens. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans are sheltering there. Some of the strikes described by the groups occurred after the Security Council’s resolution passed, while several others took place prior.
Gazan authorities reported on Wednesday that Civil Defense teams had pulled Palestinians out of the rubble after strikes in the Jabaliya neighborhood of northern Gaza, though the timing was unclear.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said its teams had picked up the bodies of two people killed by artillery fire in the Nuseirat neighborhood.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reports.
On Wednesday afternoon, Hamas said that it hit a soldier in the area surrounding Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City with sniper fire, after saying Tuesday that it had targeted two Israeli tanks in the Khan Younis area, and an armored personnel carrier and a soldier on the coastal north-south road.
Since early last week, Israeli forces have been raiding Al-Shifa in what the military has said is an effort to crack down on Hamas. Humanitarian organizations have expressed alarm over the situation at the medical facility, which, along with the surrounding area, had been sheltering thousands of people.
Over the last 48 hours, the Qassam Brigades has also published videos purporting to show militants firing on Israeli forces, but it was not clear when the videos were taken.
Four days ago I posted this – prophecy! It will come out that God-Trump wanted to gift Greenland to the Kirshner’s so they can create a Jewish Sanctuary in case of war with Iran – which is coming! This Green Madness is a dream come true for Putin. Reality is now God-Trump’s Reality Show. The Danish PM realizes The Mad Man is at her door. She can barely catch her breath. Rena’s folks are from Denmark. Is Rena as Trump devotee?
“When you fight your dragon, be careful not to become your dragon.”
The President of Denmark, seeing the War of Armageddon is about to happen in an insane act of self-fulfilling prophecy, comes up with a scheme with secret members of the Israeli Government, who are Socialist and Atheists, determined to save Israel (at least) The Haredi are getting a lot of unwanted attention from the evangelical prophets. If the blessed Tribulation is going to happen, the Haredi are the key!
“What if we could get them to abandon their orthodoxy, and believe in a new idea? ”
“Like what?”
“How about we transplant real stones and relics, from the Holy Land, to Greenland, then, we claim they were exposed in a melting glacier. Here is the lost palace of King David and Solomon. Surely the underground vault…
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