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Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza.

The historic ruling effectively puts an end to a decades-old system that granted ultra-Orthodox men broad exemptions from military service while maintaining mandatory enlistment for the country’s secular Jewish majority. The arrangement, deemed discriminatory by critics, has created a deep chasm in Israel’s Jewish majority over who should shoulder the burden of protecting the country.

The court struck down a law that codified exemptions in 2017, but repeated court extensions and government delaying tactics over a replacement dragged out a resolution for years. The court ruled that in the absence of a law, Israel’s compulsory military service applies to the ultra-Orthodox like any other citizen.

Under longstanding arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men have been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men and women.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

follow the Torah to exact letter of the law,

Is that even possible? From what I've read about Judaism, the common joke seems to be ask a question to 3 rabbis and you'll get 5 answers.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 20 points 5 months ago

Also who knows how many loopholes. Apparently the word of God is very precise and is meant to be followed to the letter, except when it's inconvenient, in which case you hang strings between your house and your neighbors' so you can wander the neighborhood when you're supposed to stay home.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

Two solutions to that problem:

  1. Choose the answer you like. Those other rabbis are wrong.
  2. Avoid breaking anyone's rules (this is, I believe, roughly the actual method). If one rabbi says it's forbidden to spin counter clockwise while dancing and another says it's fine, don't spin counter clockwise because maybe the first rabbi is right and the second just said it wasn't required, not that you had to do it. There's no electricity in the Biblical rules, but it's kind like fire and there are rules about fire on Shabbat, so they're not supposed to use electricity on Shabbat. It might be overkill, but better safe than sorry.
[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 9 points 5 months ago

I mean the Bible is like that too and fundamentalist Christians exist no?

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 months ago

naturally given that the Torah is part of the Bible

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