Perry: "In August we'll start to increase enforcement of yeshiva students"

Perry Committee Chairman, Minister Perry in an interview with Channel 2 states that as of August, "We will step up enforcement on conscription of yeshiva students"

In an interview with the program "Meet the Press", Perry said that the process may need help, but he believes that if the law will pass in the Knesset - it will work.

"Equality burden is a heavy and sensitive issue that Israeli society is dealing with the founding of the State. We remember the 400 ''masmidim' Ben-Gurion approved from the draft exemption. Since then, six committees tried to bring a particular type of solution and we should understand that this is a difficult process," he said.

"The Committee I am head of showed a lot of sensitivity and determination and perseverance. She kept the value of Torah and tried to connect it to the value of service. This is a process we are committed to, the ultra-Orthodox and secular Jews."
"Conversations I had with many leaders of the haredi community in the Knesset and outside I did not hear consensus, but there is an understanding the income of the subject into the Security Service Law exists and I am absolutely convinced that the process is happening now will overcome and grow stronger and will continue starting from this August as agreed in the Knesset," he said. "Year of the induction of July 2017 will be the year in which the duty will be compulsory for everyone."

"In August," he explained, "We will start in three parallel processes: Incentives for yeshivas who stick to recruitment, budget reduction targets for those who don't, anyone who doesn’t stabilize at the age of 17 Orthodox or secular is parallel to the Defense Service Law enforcement dramatic amplification. In addition we make extensive infrastructure professional training of the ultra-Orthodox. "

Concerning Hesder soldiers he explained, "we have to differentiate between soldiers of the Hesder and others. Framework of the Hesder yeshivas is 5 years, they did and do military service and reserves, one-third of those are now in the Hesder yeshivas having been doing service for over 24 months. If the process with the Haredim will go the way I expect it to go in later years the arrangements of the Hesder students will also change. "

In answer to the question why haredi soldiers enlist at the age of 21, when there is a significant portion of them who already have a wife and children, Perry said: "Married soldiers get paid like that a secular soldier, only a third of them have family at the age of 21. I know things are tough in the Haredi community and I'm taking advantage of the program to call out to the secular and criticizers of the plan to join hands."

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