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IDF: 340 Israelis who received draft order detained this year while trying to leave country
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Since the beginning of the year, 340 Israelis who received military draft orders and dodged service were detained while trying to leave the country, Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, head of the IDF Personnel Directorate’s Planning and Personnel Management Division, tells lawmakers.
Testifying before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Tayeb says of this group, 52 recently received orders as part of an effort to recruit ultra-Orthodox men. The IDF has sent out some 14,000 draft orders to Haredim since June.
Of those who were detained, 23 have since been drafted to the IDF, he says.
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