Overview
- The unanimous ruling requires criminal enforcement at parity with other sectors alongside complementary economic and civil sanctions.
- The court instructed the state to block bypass funding channels and to stop benefits linked to yeshiva study when it functions as a route to avoid service.
- The justices said prior non‑enforcement violated equality and damaged the rule of law, rejecting delays pending new legislation.
- The decision noted that arrests produced no data on indictments and warned that failure to pursue real cases encourages continued evasion.
- The bench of Deputy President Noam Sohlberg and Justices Daphne Barak‑Erez, David Mintz, Yael Willner and Alex Stein issued the order, as Degel HaTorah reported Slabodka yeshiva leaders backed advancing a draft bill.