JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s high court continues its interventions on the highly controversial issue of charedi draft deferments. In a hearing which took place Monday, the court, which in the past has struck down the laws allowing charedi deferment due to their contradicting the basic laws of equality, has now ordered the government to explain why it is not acting to conscript charedim.
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The court ordered the government to present its response on the issue by March 24th.
The state must also respond on why it continues to fund the yeshivot even though they are not legally eligible for deferment since the previous law was cancelled.
The court was responding to petitions regarding the conscription of yeshiva students to the IDF. The head of the Movement for Quality in Government, Eliad Shraga, said at the hearing that “There are some citizens who only have rights, they don’t need to work, they don’t need to study and don’t pay taxes. They benefit from unending amounts of coalition budgets. This is a matter that we have been stressing here for 25 years and the state has been telling us stories for 25 years about quotas and charedim who are enlisting.”
Judge Fogelman queried whether the government has the right to establish via a government decision without legislation that yeshiva students will not be conscripted. Judge Solberg maintained that the government used this option legitimately after legislation failed.
A representative of the government’s attorney general explained that “The conscription offices cannot conscript 60,000 yeshiva students in one day.”
Judge Fogelman responded: “Not in one day,but the petitioners say it should begin with 1000 per year.
The government representative concluded that: The attorney general believes that there is no possibility of forcing the issue of charedi conscription until a year after the end of the previous law in July 2024.
This is exactly the reason why they need the judicial reform that Netanyahu was trying to get. You can’t have a country where the justices or even one justice decides that a law is no good.
You can’t have an unelected bureaucrat deciding things on behalf of a country. If there is a law, then there is a law.
The more the Zionists shmad Jews, including drafting the frum into their shmad army, the more quickly the Zionists and their “State” will self-destruct.
Just curious. What would happen it all Charedim moved to one area they named ישוב הישן, then ceded from Israel, forming own country with no army, subject to Eidah court system and not supreme court. But, if overran by Arab militants would pose serious security threat to secular Israel, who therefore wouldn’t allow that?
Here we go again to make the laws they like the drop the ones they don’t from their own stupid empty mind
This is why Israel NEEDS Judicial Reform NOW!! The court thinks it is the Knesset and the PM and the President not just the ‘Court”
We can be 100% sure that Moshe Rabbeinu A”H, would have sided with the Court on this issue.
Chareidim will NEVER EVER serve in the IDF, PERIOD.