Overview
- Channel 12 aired audio on January 21 in which leading haredi rabbis describe the proposed conscription law as a way to buy time rather than bring yeshiva students into the IDF.
- Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch is heard saying the legislation would “buy time,” predicting the law would collapse after a few years and rejecting the idea of meeting enlistment targets.
- Rabbi Dov Lando states there is no intention for haredim to serve, declaring, “We will not go to the army; no one will go to the army.”
- Opposition leader Yair Lapid and Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Liberman say the recordings prove the law is a “bluff” that will not lead to haredi enlistment.
- Likud MK Dan Illouz urges coalition partners to amend the bill, and the National Religious Reservists Forum says the tapes show leaders do not plan to meet recruitment goals.