Draft Law

Yisrael Beytenu Quits Plesner C'tee over Pro-Arab Bias

Jewish Home, too, says it will leave "Equality in Service" committee after committee says it won't punish Arab service evaders.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visited the “suckers tent” and signed a petition calling for equal army service for all Israeli citizens.

MK Orlev has criticism for hareidi leaders who call on young men not to enlist. Those who learn Torah know they need to serve, he says.

Jewish Home MK: "He who studies Torah must carry out the mitzvah of defending the Jewish state."

MK Uri Ariel says religious Zionist party will cooperate with hareidim in opposing altered Tal Law.

Plesner Committee may only discuss ways of making hareidim serve in the IDF – not Arab Israelis.

Those affected would be ineligible for National Insurance stipends and other benefits. Yeshivas to be targeted too.

Arutz Sheva meets soldiers who serve in Shachar Kachol, which allows hareidim to serve in the army while keeping their lifestyle.

New programs created as hareidi youth continue to enlist in IDF. Hareidi soldiers get their own IDF rabbi.

Thousands of hareidi religious Jews are waiting to be drafted, according to Interior Minister Eli Yishai.

As the controversy over the annulled Tal Law continues, the IDF prepares for a new law that will expand recruitment of hareidim.

Knesset Member Rabbi Yisrael Eichler has called for “quality in the IDF” by canceling the obligation to serve in the forces.

New non-combat soldiers soon may be looking forward to a discharge four months earlier if the IDF goes ahead with planned cuts.