IDF haredi draft call-up falters as protests and legal challenges disrupt recruitment efforts
Only a few of the 1,000 haredim summoned for IDF recruitment showed up, amid intense protests and legal challenges.
‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’(photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Post)ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, ELIAV BREUER, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, MAARIVUpdated: