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Top Haredi rabbi: ‘Whether authorities agree or not, no yeshiva student will go to IDF’
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Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, April 5, 2024. (Shlomi Cohen/ Flash90/ File)
The spiritual leader of Degel HaTorah, one of the two factions of the Haredi United Torah Judaism party, says in a statement: “Whether the authorities agree to it or not, not a single yeshiva student, not even one, will go to the army.”
Rabbi Dov Lando issues the statement as the government continues its efforts to pass a law that would exempt most, but not all, Haredim from service.
“The place of Torah scholars is solely within the walls of the yeshivas and kollels,” Lando says. “Let everyone know, whether they understand this or not: This is the fact; it has been so, and it will remain so.”
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