The bill proposed allowing Haredim to defer service until age 26 and increasing the number who do serve only gradually, just as Ya’alon proposes now. But Plesner currently insists that Haredim be allowed to defer service only until age 22, and that most be drafted immediately.
Since the High Court gave the government only until August 1 to produce new legislation, tens of thousands of Haredi draft deferrals will be automatically invalidated if no new law is passed by then.
But even if that happens, no one in the coalition thinks these men will actually be drafted; the court will not force the army to send out draft notices immediately, so the government will have more time to propose legislation, coalition sources said. And it will eventually do so, because its member parties don’t have an interest in calling elections now, the sources predicted.
So nothing is really going to happen. Well, there still is time and what about public reaction -
And then Haredim/Orthodoxes indicated that they can accept a compromise.
The bill proposed allowing Haredim to defer service until age 26 and increasing the number who do serve only gradually, just as Ya’alon proposes now. But Plesner currently insists that Haredim be allowed to defer service only until age 22, and that most be drafted immediately.
Since the High Court gave the government only until August 1 to produce new legislation, tens of thousands of Haredi draft deferrals will be automatically invalidated if no new law is passed by then.
But even if that happens, no one in the coalition thinks these men will actually be drafted; the court will not force the army to send out draft notices immediately, so the government will have more time to propose legislation, coalition sources said. And it will eventually do so, because its member parties don’t have an interest in calling elections now, the sources predicted.
Shas Minister: Enlist Haredim, but not 80%
Update: now a report that Kadima might trying to stay in the coalition.
July 12, 2012, 7:15pm 0 notes
