Posted on 07/06/2025 10:32:20 AM PDT by jimwatx
Israel National News IDF to launch sweeping enforcement operation in haredi cities As part of the new plan, control and security checkpoints will be set up at entry points to major Haredi cities, aiming to identify and arrest youths avoiding military service. Israeli security forces are preparing to implement an unprecedented enforcement plan against members of the haredi public who refuse to enlist. As part of the new plan, which will be launched next month, checkpoints will be set up at entry points to major haredi cities, aiming to identify and arrest youths avoiding military service. The plan follows the decision to send 54,000 draft orders to haredi youths in the coming year. IDF security officials estimate that the vast majority of those receiving orders will choose not to report, leading to a dramatic increase in the number defined as deserters. The number is expected to spike from a few thousand today to tens of thousands within a year. The plan includes a significant shortening of the process of classifying someone as a deserter. What was a process that took many months will be condensed to approximately two months. After this period, anyone who does not report to the draft offices will be considered a deserter and will be subject to arrest and criminal prosecution. The new checkpoints will be positioned at several strategic locations: entrances to major haredi cities such as Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, and Beit Shemesh, main traffic routes used by the haredi population, and border crossings, including Ben Gurion Airport and checkpoints in Judea and Samaria. In addition to the permanent checkpoints, mobile enforcement actions and targeted raids on religious institutions and residential areas will be carried out. '
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.......interesting....but where would they go....?
....”Haredi Judaism is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict interpretation of religious sources and its accepted halakha and traditions, in opposition to more accommodating values and practices. Its members are often referred to as “ultra-Orthodox” in English, a term considered pejorative by many of its adherents, who prefer the terms strictly Orthodox or Haredi......”
No idea where they would go. The Haredi don’t work and are subsidized by the government so I doubt many countries would want them.
Where will they go as antisemitism spreads globally?
Where will they go as antisemitism spreads globally?
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Wherever they do go, they will only reinforce Jew-hatred because of their insistence on being parasites on the host body.
I believe that they should serve, help defend the country - but this enforcement policy doesn’t sound very well thought out.
IMHO
Certainly something needs to be done with those that seek only to take from society and are able but choose not contribute or even help with the common defense. It becomes an abuse after awhile
Arresting them is unlikely to accomplish anything. They admit it would be selectively enforced because there’s only 300 detention cells available. They government should just threaten to cut off the funds that subsidize these communities. I bet that would get their leader’s attention.
A crackdown on draft dodgers forced by secularists who want to drive a wedge between the Ultra-Orthodox and Benjamin Netanyahu.
16 of the 120 seats in parliament at stake with the religious parties 16 of the 68 seats in Netanyahu’s ruling coalition.
Very dicey for Israeli politics.
Dicey is right. I can only imagine how things will go if they start grabbing people off the streets. At least they aren’t forcing them onto the front lines like they do in Ukraine.
The Torah proscribes military service for all men 20 and older.
I am Jewish, and I have a great deal of respect for people who are far more religious than I am. However, I cannot understand how the Hari act when it comes to national service. They act as if everybody else owes them something because they are more religious. The simple factor is that if you go back to the period of time that many Jews idealized, during the time of Moses and Joshua, everybody had just experienced the revelation at Mount Sinai, where their parents did, and they were about as religious and faithful to God‘s word as ever in the history of the Jewish people. Yet, everybody between age 20 and age 60 was expected to fight. Everybody had a trade of one kind or another if they weren’t a full-time soldier. What a lot of of these folks, not all by any means, are doing is taking advantage of the nature of Israeli politics and their large influence within it. I sincerely doubt that either their ancestors or God approve, though I will of course leave it up to God to decide whether he actually approves or not.
If that’s the case then by what religious reason do they believe they should be exempt from military service? I know we in the US have our Amish and such that we excuse from service for their religious beliefs but Israel is a small country who can’t easily exempt 10% of their population. Not to mention the resentment it breeds among those who were forced to serve and their families.
They believe that the secular Israeli government is illegitimate, that only the Messiah can restore the Jewish state
“Dicey is right. I can only imagine how things will go if they start grabbing people off the streets. At least they aren’t forcing them onto the front lines like they do in Ukraine.”
Move them into Gaza to replace the Palis. 1.2 million of them can create a beautiful paradise.
But in Australia, there are small hassidic Jewish communities and they are employed, indeed, are quite prosperous. I suppose it depends what options are available. It is always wrong to encourage people to depend on welfare.
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