Haredi enlistment law designed to increase haredi employment - analysis

The bill for increasing ultra-Orthodox enlistment to the IDF approved by the cabinet for passage to the Knesset appears designed primarily to increase haredi male participation in the work force.

HUNDREDS OF haredi protesters gather outside the IDF recruitment office in Jerusalem’s Mekor Baruch neighborhood to protest IDF induction, in 2018.

HUNDREDS OF haredi protesters gather outside the IDF recruitment office in Jerusalem’s Mekor Baruch neighborhood to protest IDF induction, in 2018.

(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

ByJEREMY SHARON

AUGUST 23, 2021 18:14