NGO calls on High Court to cut funding for alternative yeshivas, citing IDF draft evasion
The ultra-Orthodox IDF draft has come to a head as the Israel-Hamas war has seen reservists completing hundreds of days of duty. IDF says it needs more manpower to deal with the new security reality.
‘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)ByEVE YOUNGUpdated: