0002安倍晋三🏺 (ワッチョイ 4f87-/LyI)2024/03/02(土) 18:00:02.54ID:m80zF5Qr0 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his regime would find a way to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israeli military service in the face of political pressures that threaten his narrow coalition's future and as Israel continues its carnage in besieged Gaza.
"We will determine goals for conscripting ultra-Orthodox people to the IDF and national civil service," Netanyahu said at a press conference on Thursday, referring to the Israeli army.
"We will also determine the ways to implement those goals."
Netanyahu appeared to be responding to a pledge made by his defence minister to veto a law that would allow the continuation of exemptions unless the government reached an agreement paving a path for ultra-Orthodox enlistment.
"We recognise and support those who dedicate their life to studying Jewish holy scripture but, with that, without physical existence, there is no spiritual existence," Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday.
Gallant said that he would be extending the enlistment and reserve duty requirements for the military as well.