The bill in question is a proposed Basic Law that would establish Torah study as a supreme value in the State of Israel and would protect the right of yeshiva students to not perform military service. The Haredi parties conditioned their votes for the state budget on support for the measure. But coalition chairman David Amsalem (Likud) said doing so violates the coalition agreement and blocked it from going on the Knesset’s agenda for this week.
You can read the rest @
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Liberman-Security-the-only-consideration-in-Haredi-conscription-debate-543725
As I understand the situation, the current nation-state of Israel actually is an affront to the Torah. You can read about that here:
https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2014/08/jews-united-against-zionism.html
More fundamentally, in the Book of Numbers those who tend to the tabernacle (and the Torah) are exempt from military conscription:
But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
Numbers 1:47-50 KJV
So, why does Likud want to draft them? Isn't following G-d's laws more important than the alleged security of a nation-state which according to the Torah should not even exist?
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