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Netanyahu meets to weigh new IDF draft law that would lower age for Haredi exemption
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police as they protest against the arrest of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who failed to comply with their army draft, in Bnei Brak, December 27, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a hearing alongside Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, Minister Dudi Amsalem and coalition chief Ofir Katz to discuss new legislation on the IDF draft.
The current proposal is said to lower the age of army exemption from the current 26 to 23. This means that Haredi men who get an exemption to study in yeshiva full-time no longer need such an exemption above the age of 23, which means they can enter the workforce at a younger age.
According to Hebrew media reports, the IDF has indicated that it does not have a problem with such a change.
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