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Yesh Atid launches ad campaign against Haredi draft evasion
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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party announces a nationwide ad campaign against “Haredi evasion,” with party activists hanging signs calling for universal conscription on dozens of bridges across Israel.
The signs read: “No discrimination between blood and blood. Recruitment for all.”
In a statement, the party pledges to “stop any attempt to close any deal for Haredi evasion in exchange for saving the October 7 government.”
Both of the Knesset’s Haredi parties are looking to pass legislation that would enshrine sweeping exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men. United Torah Judaism quit the coalition on Monday evening over its failure to legislate such an exemption, while Shas’s rabbinic leadership is scheduled to meet today to discuss following suit.
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