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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Committee for the Advancement of an Equal Burden

MK Dov Lipman in the Knesset, March 6, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 12, 2016, 10:42 am
An immigrant-turned-lawmaker looks back at 25 turbulent months
Free of the tawdry mud-slinging many political memoirs traffic in, Dov Lipman’s new squeaky clean volume, ‘An “American” MK,’ delivers a rare look at the Knesset through the eyes of a newcomer to a country in turmoil
By Raphael Ahren
Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 10, 2014, following the arrest of a Haredi man who failed to answer a draft summons (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 13, 2014, 3:52 am
Three police injured in ultra-Orthodox protest
Demonstrators throw rocks at officers, try to block roads over arrest of man who ignored draft summons
By ToI Staff
Hundreds of thousands gather in Jerusalem on Sunday, March 2, 2014, to protest the emerging draft law (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
March 2, 2014, 9:54 pm
Jerusalem protest unites Haredim against army service
Even relative moderates in the massive ultra-Orthodox crowd wax vociferous over criminal sanctions for draft-dodgers
By Mitch Ginsburg
Illustrative photo of Chabad activities (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 7, 2014, 5:00 pm
Chabad work abroad to count as national service
Knesset committee decides that 100 emissaries of Hasidic organization serving around the world fulfill obligations to state
By JTA
Illustrative: IDF recruits at the IDF's Bakum induction base on their way to become soldiers. (Flash90)
August 1, 2013, 9:53 pm
Record number drafted by IDF, but are they Haredi?
The state touts uptick in ultra-Orthodox motivation to serve, but others say recruits hail from the fringes of the community
By Mitch Ginsburg
File: Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau, July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
August 1, 2013, 10:59 am
Chief rabbi says comment about black basketball players was a joke
David Lau responds to firestorm after he chided yeshiva students for watching professional sports and said the games were merely ‘kushim playing other kushim’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Ministers Yaakov Peri and Limor Livnat visiting Haredi soldiers on their Tel Nof air base in April. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
August 1, 2013, 9:06 am
Haredi soldiers show high motivation, army reports
MKs responsible for universal draft law attending largest single enlistment of Haredi soldiers yet
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Yohanan Plesner in conversation with Shas Party head Interior Minister Eli Yishai, who served in the army but boycotted the Plesner Committee (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash 90)
August 20, 2012, 11:01 am
My proposal is the only realistic basis, says the MK who tried to solve Israel’s ultra-Orthodox conscription crisis
The August 1 deadline has come and gone. His Kadima party now sits powerless in opposition. But Yohanan Plesner is convinced his legislative proposal for equal national service, buried by the prime minister, has life in it yet
By Mitch Ginsburg
Rabbi Shlomo Amar (left) and Shimon Peres (photo credit: Flash90)
July 15, 2012, 3:13 pm
Chief rabbi and president denounce ‘hate’ talk over draft law
Netanyahu says country could make history by resolving an issue that was neglected for 64 years
By Aaron Kalman
Carol Green Ungar
July 9, 2012, 10:40 am
Carol Green Ungar
Don’t draft the Haredim
More than the IDF, it is Torah study that protects us
Eli Yishai visits protesters calling for an equal distribution of national service last month (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
July 5, 2012, 8:46 am
Shas chairman to write a new universal draft bill
Eli Yishai says his law will not include sanctions against those who don’t serve
By Aaron Kalman
Shaul Mofaz speaking to reporters Wednesday. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2012, 12:54 pm
PM in no hurry to respond to Mofaz ultimatum on proposals for ultra-Orthodox army service
Vice PM says ‘ball is in Netanyahu’s court’; Peres offers to help resolve the coalition-threatening crisis
By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff
Yohanan Plesner announcing his panel's findings in the Knesset on Wednesday. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2012, 10:24 am
Plesner says he trusts PM’s ‘good judgment’ to implement proposals on ultra-Orthodox IDF service
Coalition’s future in the balance as Kadima MK releases recommendations that Netanyahu sought to keep under wraps
By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Kadima head Shaul Mofaz at a Plesner committee meeting in May. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
July 4, 2012, 9:02 am
In bid to keep Kadima in coalition, PM reportedly to accept many of panel’s universal draft recommendations
Despite efforts by Netanyahu to keep findings under wraps, Plesner set to release report at 10 a.m.
By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff
Donniel Hartman
July 3, 2012, 2:55 pm
Donniel Hartman
Israelis must forgo fantasies about the ultra-Orthodox
With each side defining its position as a survival issue that will determine the future meaning of our collective life, the time has come for a new conversation
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