Since the beginning of the year, 340 Israelis who received draft orders and did not respond to them were arrested at Ben Gurion Airport while trying to leave the country. Out of the 340 people arrested, 52 were Chareidim who received draft orders in recent months. Of those 52, 23 enlisted in the IDF. The data was presented on Thursday to the members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee by Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, a senior official in the IDF’s Personnel Directorate. Tayeb said that approximately 14,000 draft orders have been sent to Chareidim since June. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)