Believe me, you don't really want the haredim in the army. You don't want the haredim to make crucial decisions according to the Halacha. Think about it.
Kesher Yehudi hosts unlikely encounter between haredi and secular Israeli families amid hostage crisis.
The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Tamar Uriel-Beeri and Sarah Ben-Nun.
The attorney general, possibly with good intentions, may have wrecked the idea of a real court deadline with teeth that can get anyone to make hard choices on this fateful issue.
Benny Gantz threatened earlier this week to leave the government if an unsatisfactory conscription bill passes into law.
"We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students who do not study Torah all day to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said.
Benny Gantz and some Likud members have expressed strong opposition to the proposed plan.
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