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Haaretz
| 10 months ago
Kadima's departure from the governing coalition looks likely after attempts to reach a compromise on a bill to draft the ultra-Orthodox broke down on Wednesday, sources in both Kadima and Likud said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kadima chief...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
The vision of Shloime from Bnei Brak with his streimel, and Muhammad from Tira with his keffiyeh, standing in line at the IDF recruitment base (Bakum), to volunteer for the Golani Brigade, is as far away from reality as possible. The demand today...
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| 10 months ago
Mofaz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on the team, which was announced July 8. The team will formulate the law on haredi Orthodox military service based on recommendations of the Plesner committee, which Netanyahu dissolved July 2,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
In all negotiations, there are moments of tension, like what has happened today," Mofaz said in a speech to 150 yeshiva students in Jerusalem following his meeting with Netanyahu. "At the moment we're discussing the actual text of the law and we're...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Mofaz said that he was meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday evening to discuss the issue. After Plesner and Ya'alon discussed and agreed on enlistment quotas and personal sanctions for those who do not join the IDF or do national...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
From 2002 until today, the Tal Law offered draft deferments to full time yeshiva students.Following the annulment of the law, Plesner led a committee to conscript all previously exempted sectors of Israeli society including all yeshiva students,...
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Ynet News
| 10 months ago
Dead End Haredim protest compulsory military or national service Ohad Zwigenberg Mofaz convenes party after members claim Netanyahu has suddenly gone back on all the agreements Plesner and Ya'alon have reached thus far on an alternative to the Tal...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Marc Israel Sellem MK Yohanan Plesner (Kadima) walked out on talks with Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon about a universal service bill on Wednesday, when the two sides were unable to reach agreements on key issues...Related: After Plesner...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 10 months ago
Breaking News It became evident on Wednesday that there are significant differences of opinion between MK Yohanan Plesner and Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon on a number of issues relating to an alternative to the Tal Law, including the number of...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
The rate at which potential secular and religious Zionist conscripts have been exempted from military service has declined substantially, and the number of actual draft evaders among them has been reduced to negligible levels. On the other hand,...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
The Likud and Kadima are working feverishly to come up with a draft bill to replace the expiring Tal Law by the end of the day, so that it can be sent down the legislative pipeline next week...According to another source close to the talks,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Speaking in Jerusalem at the annual conference of the haredi daily newspaper Hamodia on Tuesday, Ya'alon said that there exists an opportunity to significantly increase the numbers of those performing national service, and that he and the other...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
They are waiting to see what will be in the final bill drafted by Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Kadima MK Yohanan Plesner, which is expected to be completed by Wednesday night and brought to a vote in the cabinet Sunday. The...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
Speaking at a meeting of his Atzma'ut faction, Barak said that he hoped that the latest round of media and political interest in the Tal Law would lead to results, instead of just discussion. We want to bring about a fundamental change in the service...
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Ynet News
| 11 months ago
Draft Debate 'Their struggle is my struggle.' Mofaz Photo: Gil Yohanan In special interview, Kadima leader describes last week's political crisis over universa daft legislation as 'disagreement'; says his party will quit coalition if 'no historic...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 11 months ago
Breaking News Knesset Member Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for attempting to force haredim to serve in the army. "I miss Olmert," he said. "If Israel had a prime minister, he would have put his foot down...
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Ynet News
| 11 months ago
Israel has no leadership that can draft haredim' According to the Likud-Kadima proposal, which is based on the recommendations of the Plesner Committee, about 80% of draft-age haredi Jews would perform either military or civilian national service...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
If Netanyahu's next moves fail, it will lead to his political undoing. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's impulsive dissolution of the Plesner Committee dealing with the haredi draft was a blunder from which he and the...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that he intended to submit a bill instating a universal IDF draft, one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced work on new legislation . On Sunday, Likud MKs voted unanimously on Sunday...
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Newyork Times
| 11 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to increase significantly the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab citizens who serve in Israel 's military or civilian volunteer corps, an effort that he hoped would quiet an outraged public and also...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to increase significantly the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arab citizens who serve in Israel 's military or civilian volunteer corps, an effort that he hoped would quiet an outraged public and also...
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Haaretz
| 11 months ago
A new law governing military and national service could be just days away from completion, Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Sunday, shortly after he was appointed head of a task force to draft the legislation. Likud MKs voted unanimously on...
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Ynet News
| 11 months ago
AFP Ya'alon with Plesner Photo: Moshe Milner, GPO Boaz Nol Photo: Benny Deutch Protesters campaigning for universal military draft say won't compromise on enlistment age Shahar Chai Activists demanding universal military draft accused lawmakers...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the go-ahead Sunday to reforms that would end the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from compulsory military service, in an about-face hours after 20,000 Israelis marched for change. Military service is a...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
A day after thousands of Israeli demonstrators demanded an end to rules that make ultra-Orthodox Jews exempt from the draft, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the nation's approach to military service must change. "The existing...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
We are facing a facing a historic opportunity to heal what has been an open wound for Israeli society," Yaalon said before his meeting with Plesner. "We have to use our brains and avoid exacerbating societal rifts...In the meeting, Yaalon and Plesner...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
Israeli police have given an opposition MP and a group of far-right activists the go-head to hold an anti-Arab demo in Nazareth, the largest Arab-Israeli city, a private television station said on Sunday. MP Michael Ben Ari, of the National Union...
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Israel National News
| 11 months ago
Labor head MK Shelly Yechimovich said that Netanyahu's management of the draft issue is set from news flash to news flash. It is sad to see how one of the most sensitive and complicated issues in the country is being made a mockery of, she added. In...
