The Israeli army was forced to admit this month that it doctored the numbers of soldiers in 'haredi units' to meet quotas, but defended itself by saying the criteria of a haredi soldier were not always clear. Levy, who now heads the Nahal Haredi NGO that supports ultra-Orthodox soldiers, thinks the community's participation in military service will rise. The Internet, the modern world all affect the ultra-Orthodox society," he added. World champion Lewis Hamilton on Friday dominated qualifying at the Brazil Grand Prix but then found himself facing demotion to the back of the grid for Saturday's sprint race after Mercedes were placed under investigation for a potential breach of technical rules.
When Doug Benefield met a beautiful ballerina 30 years his junior he thought he had found his ideal match, but the whirlwind romance would end in deadly pas de deux for the pair.
And he loved her until the end. Paris Hilton and Carter Reum got married on Thursday. Hilton wore a custom Oscar de la Renta dress with sheer lace and a high neckline. A former NBA player has issued an apology after his daughter was seen at a youth basketball game in Orange County throwing a vicious sucker punch that left another girl with a concussion. Social media is in a frenzy over the dress Kendall Jenner chose to wear to her friend's wedding. Scottie Pippen: "I didn't realize how much Hakeem Olajuwon had diminished in the game.
Sajad 'Iranian Hulk' Gharibi's training is either misguided, innovative or impressive; we're just not sure which. Kesha ditched her clothes on Thursday as she communed with nature while on vacation in Hawaii.
For a hack that seems relatively simple, this little eyeliner trick has gone viral. It has the makings of a Hollywood thriller: A determined dad rescues his teenage daughter from an alleged Seattle sex trafficking ring and then takes brutal.
Women Have the Solutions. Tel Aviv Is Over. Gay Haredim Turn to Her for Help. Sometimes She Prescribes Chemical Castration. Yehuda Meshi-Zahav used to lead those demonstrations and says he was arrested more than 30 times. But his opinions changed when in he came across the aftermath of a bloody attack by a Palestinian who seized control of a public bus and forced it off a cliff near the outskirts of Jerusalem.
It killed 16 people. You understand that, in order to keep the possibility of having what we have here, everyone needs to volunteer and give what they can. He was one of the first Haredi rabbis to promote the idea of serving in the army, and his son, Netanel Meshi-Zahav, has just left a Haredi paratrooper unit.
As his father had embraced mainstream Israeli society, he knew both sides, and also acted as an aide to non-religious officers who might not understand the Haredi background.
With time, the soldiers caught up and, he boasts, Haredi units now often win many army sporting competitions. Many yeshiva students are thought to remain in religious study programs longer than they normally would in order to dodge the draft by claiming academic deferments until they reach the age of exemption. By lowering this exemption age, the government hopes to spur those Haredi men to leave the yeshiva and enter the workforce at a younger age.
Under the proposed model, ultra-Orthodox men will be permitted to complete their required service by serving for three months in an approved position — in medical care, education, elder care or another civic framework — and agreeing to perform service in the reserves afterward, in place of serving in the Israel Defense Forces for two years and eight months, plus reserves, as is required of other Jewish Israeli men.
The plan must still be okayed by the Knesset, where Haredi politicians in the opposition may try to keep it from becoming law. The agreement on the plan Sunday addresses one part of a larger struggle over the shape of ultra-Orthodox conscription in Israel. The Haredi population of Israel overwhelmingly opposes performing mandated national civil or military service, seeing it as a way for external forces to potentially draw away its members.
0コメント