Menachem Kellner

Jul 24, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Cole Aronson |Akiva Schick |Avraham ben Yizhak |Menachem Kellner

This past Sunday, Israel’s defense ministry delivered one thousand draft notices to Haredi men, with two thousand more to follow soon. The ministry is carrying out the attorney general’s interpretation of the High Court ruling against army exemptions for Haredi yeshiva students, who numbered some 66,000 in 2023. Haredi leaders panned the ruling. The former Sephardi chief rabbi instructed students to disobey their draft orders.