Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, of the Sephardic-haredi Shas party, has stated that the haredi public must change its perspective and realize that the refusal to enlist in the IDF is no longer relevant.
Speaking on the Fourth Quarter Movement podcast, Arbel said, "The reality after October 7 is a reality that the haredi public needs to understand and internalize that there is no longer a moral option of continuing this way."
"Each year, there are 1,500 who are eligible to enlist - they must be part of those who bear the burden.
"In addition, there are a significant number of institutions which are designated for struggling youth. All of those institutions - there is no justification in the world that those who by definition do not learn Torah as their occupation should not be part of the army."
In February, Arbel sent a letter to Yossi Levy, CEO of Netzach Yehuda.
In his letter, later published by Yediot Ahronot, Arbel encouraged the integration of haredim into meaningful, long-term military service. He particularly expressed his pleasure at the significant increase in interest among haredi youth to enlist for combat service in the upcoming draft.
Arbel also told Levy how happy he is about the more than 800 new haredi soldiers who have joined the IDF since October 7th. And in an interview, Arbel argued that it is totally indefensible for haredim to claim exemption from military service simply because they are haredim. Like all other Israeli citizens, they should serve, he told the interviewer, except for those who are genuinely engaged in full-time Torah study.
6 comments:
When North Tel Aviv, Haifa,& suburbs will be drafted-& forced to serve in low grunt ranks like charedim we could have a discussion
11:54
What a dumb response! All this time I thought that a Ben-Torah has empathy for his people, and cares for all his Jewish brethren, now I see according to your uncaring selfish comment, that we are really all the same; Chareidm and Chilonim are no different from each other. Is this what Torah learning does to us? Makes us Chilonim in outlook and in values? Woe to us and how low we have sunk!
"the haredi public must change its perspective"
Not when it is lead by a bunch of 90 year old men.
Right now the chiloni dodgers are using the Chareidi community as justification. Stop providing it and then criticize them.
Each year about 60,000 exemptions are issued. About 10,000 do sheirut leumi, about 12,000 to chareidim, and about 44,000 to chilonim, almost all of them in the tel aviv metropolitan area.
11:02
First of all your numbers is all bald-faced lie put out by the Chareidie lying press. But lets' assume it's true, there are more Chilonim than Charedim so of course there would be more exemptions for Chilonim. Again, these frauds compare Torah Jews to Chilonim, Torah Jews should serve and protect their brothers and sisters, so now, because Chilonim get exemptions so Torah Jews should get exemptions?, in what crazy world do people think like this?
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