Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has formally urged Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to direct all pertinent government bodies to swiftly devise a comprehensive strategy to boost enforcement against draft evasion within the chareidi sector.
Baharav-Miara noted that during the current 2024–2025 enlistment cycle, just 1,700 chareidi men joined the military—falling significantly short of the government’s earlier pledge to the High Court to ensure that at least 3,000 would be drafted.
“A situation in which the government, on the one hand, is not taking the minimal means to increase enforcement of the draft obligation, and, on the other hand, is making the burden [of military service] even heavier for those serving in regular and reserve duty, constitutes a severe blow to the right to equality, and greatly increases the inequality in military service and the harm to those who serve,” Baharav-Miara tells Netanyahu.
She called on Netanyahu to issue a direct order instructing all relevant ministries to immediately formulate a detailed enforcement proposal—emphasizing that this can be done through cabinet resolutions and other executive actions without requiring new laws.
“Your clear instructions are therefore needed to all relevant government departments to present in the immediate term a program for increasing enforcement, including through cabinet and administrative decisions which the government can make without needing to pass legislation,” she adds.
Her call to action comes amid a mounting political standoff between Netanyahu and his coalition partners in the chareidi parties, who are insisting that the government move forward with legislation that would once again codify broad military exemptions for yeshiva students.

{Matzav.com}