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2024-11-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel Katz confirms issuing of 7,000 IDF draft notices to haredi recruits
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[Jpost] Defense Minister Israel Katz approved the distribution of 7,000 IDF draft notices to haredi (ultra-Orthadox) recruits, Israel's Defense Ministry said on Friday morning.
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It added that the recruitment notices will be sent out gradually, beginning on Sunday, and based on IDF considerations.
Katz's approval came after the IDF announced on Thursday that it planned on issuing 1,000 new draft notices to eligible haredi men on Sunday as part of the 7,000 that it will issue over the next six to eight weeks.
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The Defense Ministry said that the goal of the recruitment is to enable the integration of haredim into the IDF to ease the burden on conscripted soldiers and reservists while preserving the observations of the Torah world.
He also said that the "IDF would do everything possible to provide the haredim with a supportive framework that ensures their ability to fulfill their missions in the military while maintaining their religious lifestyle."
HAREDI DRAFT COMPLEXITY
Katz's approval comes after he replaced former defense minister Yoav Gallant last week. Notably, Gallant had also approved the recruitment of haredi drafts earlier this month.
Katz's decision also follows general opposition from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his haredi coalition partners to changes of policy other than solidifying the existing blanket exemption from military service.
Furthermore, 3,000 draft notices went out in an earlier round this past summer, which resulted in just under 300 new draftees. Due to this low turnout, the IDF more than doubled the number of notices in this round, hoping to reach higher total numbers.
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox coalition partners have pushed for the passage of a law regulating military exemptions for yeshiva students and other members of the Haredi community, after the High Court ruled in June that the dispensations, in place for decades, were illegal and violate the principle of equality.
The ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism and Shas parties have accused both Gallant and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara of being the main obstacles to a bill enshrining the decades-long Haredi draft exemption.
Following Katz’s decision to forge ahead with issuing the draft orders to Haredim, a senior UTJ official was quoted by Hebrew media as saying: “It turns out it’s not the attorney general or Gallant — the Likud has decided to declare war on the ultra-Orthodox.”
The IDF announced Thursday that it had seen a significant increase in the number of ultra-Orthodox men who have been drafted into the military this year so far. However, it is still far from reaching its conscription goals.
The military has said that it currently requires some 10,000 new soldiers — 75 percent of whom would be combat troops — but can only accommodate the enlistment of an additional 3,000 ultra-Orthodox soldiers this year, due to their special needs. This would be in addition to some 1,800 Haredi soldiers who are already drafted annually.
Over the summer, the IDF Personnel Directorate sent out 3,000 draft orders to Haredi men aged 18-26. Out of those 3,000 men, less than 10% showed up at induction centers.
The dispute over the ultra-Orthodox community serving in the military is one of the most contentious in Israel, with decades of governmental and judicial attempts to settle the issue never achieving a stable resolution. The Haredi religious and political leadership fiercely resists any effort to draft young men.
Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who enlist will be secularized.
Israelis who do serve, however, say the decades-long arrangement of mass exemptions unfairly burdens them and their families, a sentiment that has intensified since the October 7, 2023, onslaught and the ensuing war, in which more than 780 soldiers have been killed and some 300,000 citizens have been called up to reserve duty. 
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