More than 60 heads of local authorities jointly assail the bill regulating Haredi conscription that was unveiled by Likud MK Boaz Bismuth earlier today.
“IDF conscription is one of the most meaningful expressions of the shared Israeli destiny,” the officials write in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Bismuth, who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, according to Hebrew media. “It defines our national resilience, which depends on responsibility and shared contribution to the state and defending its citizens.”
The officials also point to the IDF’s need for additional manpower and say, “The conscription law being advanced presents a danger to the social fabric and will deepen the crisis between the country’s citizens and its institutions.”
The letter comes as several members of the governing coalition have attacked the bill, which would enshrine exemption from enlistment for large numbers of Haredi men. The opposition has also decried the bill.
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