Lapid says he filed a new military draft bill: ‘Those who evade service won’t get money’

Opposition leader Yair Lapid says he has submitted a new version of the draft law under which those who evade military or civil service won’t be eligible for state funding.

Speaking to a meeting of his Yesh Atid faction in the Knesset, Lapid says that his version “will lead to a real equality of the burden.”

“The state simply cannot continue to transfer funds to those who evade service,” Lapid says. “The new law will be clear and simple: those who evade will not receive money, those who do not serve in the army or civil service will not receive allowances from the state.”

“Whoever enlists, the state will do everything to make it easier for him and help him,” he says, adding that if the ultra-Orthodox were drafted into the army there would be no need for current plans to extend mandatory military service and reserve duty.