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Outrage to alternative Haredi draft plan

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Infolive TV International

76 Views • Jun 28, 2012

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Religious parties in Israel were outraged to learn that the Plesner
Committee, tasked with finding alternatives to the Tal Law, which
regulates haredim's IDF service, has decided to recommend both
mitigations and sanctions be applied in the matter. If Haredim should
default on IDF service or National Service at the age of 23, they will
be subjected to personal sanctions. Religious seminars that fail to
refer their students to service will be subjected to budgetary
sanctions as well. The committee's method includes affording 20% of
yeshiva youths considered prodigies -- a permanent exemption from
service, which will release some 1,500 students from service in each
draft class; as well as deferring yeshiva students' service until the
age of 22. The religious parties are threatening that should these
laws come to pass, the political crisis would be "the least of
Netanyahu's problems."