The army had issued 3,000 recruitment orders to members of the community.Haredim“During the summer, but a large number of them did not come to Recruitment centersAccording to the newspaper “The Times of Israel”, army officer Shai Tayeb, head of the Planning and Personnel Management Department in the Army Personnel Directorate, said.
The army issued 1,126 Arrest warrant Against those who did not come to the conscription centers, because they “did not respond to the first and second orders,” as Tayeb stated during a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
The officer continued: “After this procedure, they will receive an invitation to immediate recruitment, and anyone who does not come to the recruitment center will be declared an evader.”
The consequences of being declared a conscription evader include receiving a “no-exit order,” meaning a ban on leaving the country. Also, during any encounter with the police, the conscription evader can be arrested.
The military police do not plan to… Israeli army To carry out physical arrests of those who do not show up to conscription centers, it instead waits until they are declared draft evaders and leaves the matter to law enforcement.
The Israeli opposition leader demanded Yair LapidMinister of Defense Yisrael Katzdirecting the army to immediately issue 7,000 additional recruitment orders for Haredi Israelis of age military serviceAnd strengthening procedures against those who did not show up for service.
According to the Times of Israel, the army sent, on Sunday, 1,000 new recruitment orders out of 7,000 it intends to issue to the Haredim.
These orders come after a previous round in which the army issued 3,000 recruitment orders during the summer, of which less than 10 percent attended the recruitment centers.
The army announced that it needs approximately 10,000 new soldiers for combat operations, but it will not be able to accommodate the recruitment of more than 3,000 religious soldiers this year due to their “additional needs,” in addition to the fact that the army recruits 1,800 Haredi soldiers on an annual basis.
These numbers mean that the army can recruit only 4,800 people out of more than 60,000 Haredim who qualify for conscription age, a number considered insufficient, especially by a member of The Knesset For the Likud Party, Yuli Edelstein.
