New Orthodox track: 'Police Civil Service'

Under the heading 'National Guard service', the government is expected to approve today (Sunday) at a weekly meeting the recruitment plan for 1,300 yeshiva students and scholars including the national citizens service - and recognizing it as a substitute for military service. This is despite the expiration 'Tal Law' on August 1.

Upon the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Science and Technology, Director of the Civil Service can renew the recruiting, "in order to maintain the trust relationship with the haredi community and prevent a shortage of volunteers," because, since the expiry of the Tal Law, the arrangement allowing the yeshiva students to fit in the civil service has been canceled, if their service was postponed for a period of four years and aged over 22.

Tal Law which was repealed stated that "security service who served in the civil service for a year at least, is exempt from regular service." Thus, the abolition of the law has also led to the Civil Service no more authority to absorb new servers.

In recent months, the active head of the civil service, the Minister Shalom Gerbi, put pressure on the government, in the hope that a solution will be found to allow the continued recruitment.

The proposal submitted to ministers is part of the solution, and it imposes on the Minister of Science and Technology, Rabbi Dr. Daniel Hershkowitz, to continue to manage the civil service and the defense minister to instruct the Personnel Directorate, to reject the order of the service for yeshiva students aged 26 at least, or aged 22 who are fathers with at least one child, who want to volunteer for civil service - giving them exemption from military service.

The new recruiting model - called the police civil service - will be a more limited service than the Civil Service operated by 'Tal Law', and gives an answer to preserve the right of the orthodox to serve in civil service.

The new model will be valid until -31.8.13 - assuming that by then an alternative to Tal Law will be engraved.

The proposal for the decision states that this form of Civil Service Police will enable the absorption of about 1,300 haredim, to have committed one of two routes: 40 hours a week for a year or 20 hours per week for two years.

Whoever will serve in the civil service guard, will receive the same bonus that citizens who served in regular service receives, plus monthly maintenance fees, depending on family status.

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