Jerusalem – Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he believes the burden of national and military service must be carried equally by all Israeli citizens, including the ultra-Orthodox and Arabs.
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“I am committed to distributing the burden in a more equal way,” Netanyahu said in the closed-door session. “I believe that equality in the (service) burden must include all Israeli citizens – the haredim and the Arabs.”
The prime minister also spoke to the committee members about late prime minister Yitzhak Shamir, whose coffin was lying in the Knesset building ahead of his funeral at Mount Herzl later Monday evening.
“Shamir was and will be an example of public service,” he said. The former prime minister “dedicated his life to the Zionist idea, to the people of Israel and to the Land of Israel.”
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How can they furce people to go in to the IDF? Never heard that in any other land in the world, I live in the USA I’m 29 years old didn’t got no letter no phone call to get in millatery, anyway its a waste of time they didn’t accomplish it in the last 60 years even they tried so hard many times, jewish bucrim MUST & will sit & learn till משיח gane come,
I could see the disasters coming out of this move, by GIVING the Israeli Arabs weapons.
The lifestyle and world experience in Israel is not as bad as we think, but we still have to instill values of patriotism and honor and diligence in our young children today.
To #3,5,6,8, and 10.
Your comments show that you don’t know AlterG. His posts always show a very poor grasp of reality. He is a Neturei-Karta symphathiser, whose hatred of Israel blinds him to obvious facts. It’s no good reasoning with him.
It is a very unfortunate situation that people do not realize that all our strength is due to those who sit and learn tora lishmo, in purity and holiness.
To touch them is suicide to the land of israel and all its jewish inhabitants.
Those who learn, must also learn and daven properly.
Besides this, the army does not accomodate frum jews, so it is a very bad army until this is sorted out. They prefer women and immodesty and a non jewish lifestyle.
Fat lot of good that is for israel!
I think everyone sharing the burden is fair. Let’s make it mandatory for all living males to log 5 hours per week of documented authentic Torah learning and for Charedi men of suitable age to serve in the army.
when they learn toireh then we can go to the army. We are doing more than our fare share!!!!