JERUSALEM (AP) Among Israel’s Jewish majority, mandatory military service is largely seen as a melting pot and rite of passage. The ultra-Orthodox say that integrating into the army will threaten their generations-old way of life.
A Tuesday cabinet meeting was postponed to discuss Israel's mandatory military service relating to exemptions for those who are ultra-Orthodox amid protestors and ongoing tension over the issue as the war in Gaza rages o
JERUSALEM (AP) As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, broad exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a deep divide in the country and rattled the government coalition, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fellow War Cabinet members staunchly opposed to his proposed new conscription law. By the end of the […]
JERUSALEM As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, broad exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a deep divide in the country and rattled the government coalition, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s fellow War Cabinet members staunchly opposed to his proposed new conscription law.
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