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Sunday, July 21, 2024
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
IDF sending out first 1,000 draft orders to Haredi men Sunday with more to come
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024, during a hearing on Haredi enlistment in the IDF. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The IDF is sending out 1,000 draft orders to male members of the Haredi community between the ages of 18 and 26, in the first of three such waves over a four-week period.
The draft orders are the first stage in the screening and evaluation process that the army carries out for new recruits, ahead of enlistment in the military in the coming year.
Last month, the High Court ruled that there was no longer any legal framework allowing the state to refrain from drafting Haredi yeshiva students into military service, and the attorney general ordered the government to immediately begin the process of conscription for 3,000 such men — the number the military has said it is able to process at this preliminary stage.
