Debate Intensifies on Integrating Haredim into IDF with Multiple Models Proposed
As security challenges mount, proposals range from wider military service to compensating soldiers, highlighting the complexity of the issue.
- Debate over integrating Haredim into the IDF reignited with six different models proposed.
- IDF Chief of Staff emphasizes the need for wider military service, including Haredim and possibly Arab Israelis.
- National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz proposes a plan for integrating Haredim and Arab Israelis into national service.
- Defense Minister Yoav Gallant suggests compensating IDF soldiers more as a solution to the exemption issue.
- Yair Lapid's aggressive law for increasing Haredi service numbers remains a point of reference.