A Cabinet committee is to ask the IDF and government legal advisors whether entertainers who dodged the draft can perform in next year's 60th Independence Day celebrations. Recent reports have contradicted previous biased information that equated draft dodging with ultra orthodox youth who are exempt for army duty because they learn Torah.

A growing number of secular men, including the two sons of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, have evaded serving in the army, and statistics have shown that more than 40 percent of new officers are from the national religious sector.