Ultra-Orthodox students must be drafted, Israel court rules
The ruling means that potentially tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men could now face the draft/ Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark case that ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students must be drafted to the military. There have been long-standing exemptions for conscription for young men registered in full-time religious study, but a legal arrangement allowing the practice to continue expired recently. In Israel, the military is often described as “the People’s Army” and the wide-scale exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men ...
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