Draft Dodging

IDF draft:

By 2050, just 41% of youth will enlist

This 41% will consist of 99 thousand people, as opposed to just 67 thousand today.

Haredi draft dodger disappears after hospital visit

Yeshiva student arrested for draft dodging missing after hospital visit.

Anti-draft protesters shut down Jerusalem roads, train service

Demonstrators from extremist Jerusalem Faction block major intersection, light rail, protesting arrest of draft dodgers.

Conscientious objector jailed for 30 days

Noa Gur Golan refuses to enlist in the IDF, claiming that 'we need to lower the level of violence.' The IDF put her in prison for 30 days.

'Stay off the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway tonight''

Extremist haredi faction warns travelers to stay off Route 1, blocks roads in Jerusalem in protest against detention of draft dodgers.

Haredi anti-draft activists: The Torah tells us to protest

Extremist haredi faction calls fight against detention of draft dodgers 'war against Amalek.'

Airport nightmare: Bureaucratic error lands haredi woman in jail

On way to vacation abroad, young haredi woman arrested at airport, sent to jail - all because of a simple bureaucratic mistake.

Ratified: Draft-Dodgers Ineligible for State Scholarships

'Draft Dodgers' Law' passes on Knesset plenum, will revoke eligibility for students who evaded IDF service for ideological reasons.

Hareidi Enlistment

Criminal Sanctions for Hareidi Draft-Dodgers - After 6 Months

The Shaked Committee reaches a compromise on hareidi draft-dodgers.

Legal Expert: Draft Law 'Shameful, Scandalous' - and Ineffective

Attorney Yoram Sheftel slams the Equal Burden Law calling for hareidi draft, claims it will encourage more men to dodge the draft.

IDF Evaluates Draft-Dodger with Facebook, Debate Ensues

Incoming recruit declares herself 'religious' - and, thus, exempt - just before draft date; IDF uses Facebook to accuse her of fakery.

Slashed Hareidi Budgets Blamed on ‘Fundamental Hate’

Hareidi MK: decision to cut budgets for hareidi men – while funding draft dodgers – proves the real problem is hatred.

General: ‘People’s Army’ Facing Collapse

IDF general reveals: one in four men and over one-third of women eligible for draft do not enlist. Draft-dodging threatens 'people's army.'

Rabbi Ovadia: Fight Draft Movement by Studying Torah

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef urged yeshivas to take a "spiritual summer vacation" and continue learning Torah in response to the draft movement.

Yeshiva Students Could Serve in Shabak, Report Says

The Plesner Committee is set to reveal its recommendations on drafting yeshiva students next week.

Soldier’s Life at Risk in Hunger Strike

A soldier arrested for going AWOL is on a hunger strike and has refused medical treatment.