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Edelstein stresses critical need to enlist Haredi soldiers after briefing at IDF Northern Command
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In an apparent dig at members of his own Likud party who are reportedly working on a new enlistment outline to exempt large numbers of ultra-Orthodox men from military service, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein declares that there is a critical need to enlist many more soldiers.
Following a high-level security briefing by the head of the IDF’s northern command, the Likud lawmaker states that it is now “even clearer what the IDF’s manpower needs are and our obligation as the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is to do everything to expand the IDF recruitment base [and] to reduce the burden of reserve duty — because in the coming years the needs of the IDF, both here in the north and in other areas… will be great. It is our obligation to answer these needs.”
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