Conscription of yeshiva students

Yeshiva during the demonstration

Yeshiva during the demonstration

Protest against the conscription of yeshiva in Israel was a prayer and a protest attended by hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders led by Israel. Rally protesting against a bill drafted almond Committee, in order to compel some yeshiva students join the army and civilian service. Demonstration was held wide area, up the street from the entrance to Jerusalem kings of Israel and Jeremiah Street, on Sunday, March 2, 2014.

Background

Subject recruitment Orthodox yeshiva students partially regulated even heads of state. Since 1977 the actual exemption by the Minister of Defense, who used this statutory authority vested in him by virtue of the exemption security service conscripts service. Petition against this arrangement led to a ruling in 1998 that the authority granted by the Minister of Defense Act was not intended to exempt such a large scale, as arriving late '90s, and that this issue required legislation in the Knesset.

Following the Supreme Court decision in 1999 was appointed a public committee headed by Justice Zvi Tal. Conclusions led to the 2002 enactment of the deferment for Yeshiva Students ("Tal Law") regulates the deferral of military Yeshiva Torah is their profession. Law enacted in line Time for 5 years, and was extended in 2007 in 5 years. Court ruled in 2012 that extended back to the validity of the law in the summer of 2012, because it is unequal. Following the expiry of the law creates a situation whereby the IDF recruitment is mandatory for all members of the Haredi community by virtue of the security service, and penal sanctions on those who refuse to enlist (imprisonment for up to 5 years), but in practice this law is not enforced against members of the Haredi community, due to the use of authority Defense Minister to delay the draft.

After several attempts to formulate a new law unsuccessful (eg Plesner Committee), established Committee Shaked, headed by MK Ayelet Shaked, increasing inequality burden of legislation. During deliberations (not yet ended at the time of assembly) formed a committee proposals to set targets Recruiting two years for the Haredi sector and impose general duty of raising the overall possibility of imposing economic sanctions and criminal yeshiva students who will be drafted from −2017, and collective sanctions on the conference, if quotas were not met.

Women who prayed against recruitment

Preparation Assembly

On February 24, 2014 in Bnei Brak gathered together in councils of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel and Degel HaTorah and the Council of Torah Sages of the Shas party and decided to hold a big demonstration against the law being formulated, which will be held a week after the conference. Were called to attend the rally all Israel's Haredi men and children from nine.

Group of nationalist haredi rabbis issued a proclamation calling upon the public to participate in religious Zionist rally. Other rabbis of the religious community – national, including Rabbi Haim Druckman, called that program, because the organizers harsh expressions against Israel. Some rabbis called to attend the rally retracted morning rally, following an acute attack of the newspaper "Yated Ne'eman" the Rabbi Druckman, against the opposition participation in the rally.

On the demonstration, Israeli police closed the road one latrun entry of private vehicles to Jerusalem from noon until evening. Starting at two police blocked main roads in protest, including the area the entrance to Jerusalem. Internal public transport – city of Jerusalem were narrowly.

A child picks a sign Demonstration

The assembly process

Hundreds of thousands of protesters lined the streets of Sderot Shazar (ICC), Jaffa, ministers of Israel and the kings of Israel, and the surrounding streets in the area. Allocated some Jaffa Road for Orthodox women of Jerusalem who participated in the demonstration. Prepared placards with slogans in favor of the study of Torah and against the persecution of the haredi community . due to the weather, there was a heavy mist in Jerusalem during the demonstration.

Assembly tenth psalms in the order arranged Shelah , and pardons and supplication . Though the General Assembly applies the first of which does not say Pardons and supplication , ruled Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Vosner that to say Selichot rally due to harsh decrees strikes at the guardians of the Torah by government in Israel. "prayer rally is also married" and Aneinu Creator following the drought of winter 2013–2014. slogan was used as a symbol of the rally was "holy Torah will win"

Rally attended by many leaders of the Haredi community, including the Rebbes of Gur, Belz and Vizhnitz, Lithuanian rabbis Aharon Leib Steinman, Chaim Kanievsky and Shmuel Auerbach, Sephardic rabbis Shalom Cohen and Shimon desserts and other members of the Great Council of Torah and the Council of Torah Sages. Likewise attended a rabbinical orthodox community, including Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, chief Rabbis David Lowe and Isaac Joseph, and Hasidic leaders, rabbis and public figures. Rally was also attended by small groups and religious Zionist rabbis, including Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi Yaakov Shapira.

Assembly was not center stage rabbis (gathered separately along with their followers in specific places), but only cantors who read the psalms and forgiveness.

At the end of the rally was said Smart Birkat thin (Special blessing will fix when seeing six hundred thousand from Israel) And Assembly Declaration was read (see below). Public dispersed after singing and dancing to music Hasidic circles, on the occasion of the month of Adar occurred that day.

Declaration of the Assembly

No speeches at the rally. End were read statements received by the council of Torah Sages and the Council of Torah Sages:

• Public reading not promote forced conscription law for yeshiva students and kollel students.
• Read yeshiva students and include not join the army and temptation and penalties all they, and especially not to cooperate with the special recruitment programs IDF Haredi public.
• Warning the government and the Prime Minister public struggle to drag in matters of religion and state, which can cause civil disobedience and civil war.
• Call to continue the status quo with regard to the postponement of service for yeshiva students and to cease harassment of the haredi public.
• Read the entire Torah observant public to strengthen the study of Torah and observance, they only guarantee the continued existence of Israel.