The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft - opinion
This might have been possible to tolerate before October 7 but definitely not now, at a time when the IDF is missing over 10,000 soldiers to fulfill the missions it already has.
MK MOSHE GAFNI, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, leads a committee meeting last week. ‘Why would a country willingly fund institutions that seek its downfall? The sad answer is politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs the haredim in his coalition,’ says the writer.(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)ByYAAKOV KATZ
