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July 16, 2024

To Conscript Haredim, the IDF Will Have to Make Some Compromises

But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.

In the coming weeks, the IDF plans to begin drafting Haredim of eligible age. Meanwhile, haredi rabbis and political leaders continue to insist that they oppose enlistment under any circumstance. Tamir Granot, a religious Zionist rabbi and the head of a yeshiva—whose own son was killed in action on October 15, 2023—reflects with sensitivity on the distance that separates him from his haredi coreligionists, with whom he shares so much. Granot, on the one hand, has little sympathy for the arguments against conscription:

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July 16, 2024

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  2. To Conscript Haredim, the IDF Will Have to Make Some Compromises

    But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.

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