From Lapid: Rabbis’ approval proves conscription bill is draft evasion law
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The decision of the Degel HaTorah party’s senior rabbis to allow their MKs to support the advancement of the government’s bill to regulate ultra-Orthodox conscription proves that its real purpose is to facilitate draft evasion, declares Opposition Leader Yair Lapid.
“If there is one thing that definitively confirms that what was presented to the Knesset is a full-blown draft evasion law, it is the rabbis’ approval. They would not have approved it unless they knew it was outright draft evasion,” Lapid tells lawmakers during a speech in the Knesset.
“The people who call themselves ‘the national camp’ are going to the rabbis and getting permission to release tens of thousands of healthy young people from the IDF… It is simply an erosion of the foundations of Zionism. Shame on you,” he tells the coalition.
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