Numerous Kohanim and the Levites participated in the wars of Israel. Even before they participated in wars as regular soldiers, they led the soldiers of Israel in their fighting.
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a petition to cancel enlistment orders sent to about 5,500 yeshiva students, ruling the petition irrelevant after the IDF said it no longer uses National Insurance data.
The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held a discussion on the haredi draft law today, evaluating economic incentives for recruiting yeshiva students into the IDF.
Operational needs of the ongoing war have caused the IDF to draft students significantly earlier than originally planned.
Family of haredi teen who died of cancer says army harassed them until days after his death, demanding he show up to draft office.
New tongue-in-cheek IDF video campaign combats haredi stigma against army service.
UTJ MKs, government officials have been secretly meeting for 6 months to come up with ways to prevent haredim from being drafted.
President Peres asked Finance Minister Yair Lapid to reconsider criminalizing hareidi draft-dodging. Lapid respectfully declined.
