Israel: Over 1,000 Arrest Warrants Issued for Ultra-Orthodox Jews Who Refused the Draft

Israel has a lot of internal problems that don’t really get discussed much in America.

This is in contrast to Israel’s American problems, of which they have none. Israel has a complete and total lockdown on the US government and thus the entire US population. This is not true of the Israeli population, some of whom are beginning to become outraged.

Middle East Monitor:

The Israel Defence Forces have issued more than eleven hundred arrest warrants to ultra-Orthodox Jews who have ignored draft orders, a senior army officer told Knesset members on Wednesday.

The Times of Israel has reported that the head of the IDF’s Personnel Directorate’s Planning and Personnel Management Division explained that the army issued 3,000 draft orders to members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community over the summer, but many of them did not show up.

“Of the 3,000 ultra-Orthodox who received [draft] orders,” General Shay Taib told members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, “1,126 were issued with arrest warrants for those who did not report to the first and second orders. After that, they will receive a call for immediate recruitment, and anyone who does not come [to the induction centre] will be declared a [draft dodger].”


The Haredi have been protesting the draft plans for a while

In Israel, draft dodgers receive a “no exit order” banning them from leaving the country and they face being arrested.

The Israeli Military Police do not plan to actually carry out arrests of those who do not show up to the induction centres, but instead wait until they are declared draft dodgers and leave it to law enforcement officers.

The army said that it needs 10,000 new soldiers for combat operations, but would not be able to recruit more than 3,000 ultra-Orthodox soldiers this year due to their “additional needs”.

Why does Israel only need 10,000 soldiers if they are fighting a seven-nation army (like the White Stripes song)?

Are they planning for some other country’s military to come fight for them?

What country?

I sure hope it isn’t my country…