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Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky comments on the ultra-Orthodox draft protests, the current elections, and Biden's relationship with Netanyahu.

Although the 2024 budget is highly likely to be passed into law by Wednesday, many controversial factors remain on the agenda, namely funding for the haredi education system.

As the 2024 budget approval and haredi draft crisis loom, the question of haredi refusal to integrate presses on the Israeli economy and army - and at what cost?

Haredi students’ participation in volunteer programs offered by their colleges can result in more ultra-Orthodox community members becoming inclined to enroll in higher education. 

Haredi men train as worksite managers in a program by the Ministry of Labor, the Association of Builders in Israel and the Construction Industry Development Foundation.

Yair Lapid lambasted the chief rabbi’s remarks on Sunday, stating, “Rabbi Yosef's words are an insult and disgrace to the IDF soldiers who risk their lives to defend the country."

Certainly, haredi enlistment can be promoted, and people can be convinced of its value, but coercion is doomed to fail from the outset.

The 47-year-old pact, whereby ultra-Orthodoxy got wholesale draft exemptions, budgets, and subsidies in turn for joining Likud’s coalitions will next month come to an end.

Halevi said that broadening the sectors of Israel's population that serve in the IDF and national service is the only way to replace the many Israeli soldiers who have died in the current war.