IDF says 338 ultra-Orthodox soldiers drafted this past week, 211 in combat roles

The IDF says that this past week, 338 members of the ultra-Orthodox community enlisted in the military for mandatory service — 211 combat soldiers and 127 combat support.

The combat soldiers include 70 draftees to the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion; 19 to the Tomer Company in the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion; 19 to the Hetz Company in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion; 11 to the Nevatim Airbase’s ground defense unit; 35 to Border Police; and 57 to the Hasmonean Brigade, the IDF’s new Haredi brigade.

Additional Haredi soldiers will be drafted in the coming months, the military says.

The IDF says it has also completed sending out a wave of 7,000 draft orders to members of the ultra-Orthodox community, after 3,000 were sent out over the summer.

The orders constitute the first stage in the screening and evaluation process that the army carries out for recruits ahead of enlistment in the military in the coming year.