Civil service returns - and Left continues to incite

On Sunday morning the government passed a law allowing 1,300 haredim to serve in the civil service.

The incitement against the Haredi community and against the government which gave its hand to it, was quick to come. "An act which overrides the Supreme Court', many media outlets were quick to call it.

The first of the responders against the decision was chairman of the Movement, Tzipi Livni.

"I'm not surprised the government aimed to approve the exemption from conscription. As usual, Netanyahu prefers his natural partners to the government over those who bear the burden. The intention of the Netanyahu - Lieberman government is to bypass the Supreme Court and keep perpetuating the historical injustice is outrageous and lacks values. Once again this government shows its true priorities, priorities which have nothing to do with the Israeli public's benefit.

"On the eve of elections, the government chooses to spit in the face of the Zionist majority which serves in the IDF, which enlists to the reserves over and over again and is not willing to ignore this ongoing failure. The movement under my leadership is committed to act to change the situation radically and to enforce a situation in which the service requirement applies to all levels of society, including haredim and Arabs. There is no existing social justice or equality of citizens without full equality of burden. "

What is interesting is that Livni declares to the world that she intends to take the power from Netanyahu.

Everyone understands that there is hardly any chance to do so without attaching the haredi public to her government, since it is unlikely that she will attach to the Netanyahu – Lieberman party. And the question is - how can the Haredi public join her a moment after she throws mud in its face.

MK Yoel Hasson, head of the response team of the "Movement", rushed to attack the Labor party chairman, MK Shelly Yachimovich, the only party leader who did not condemn the government's decision to enact a law that overrides the Supreme Court regarding the Tal Law.

MK Hasson said: "Another face mask was removed from Yachimovich's hypocritical face, as shown today when she does not audit the government's miserable decision to continue the perpetuation of inequality in the distribution of burden. Labor voters should pay attention to the fact that the Labor Party leader, who expresses herself on any social issue, chose consciously not to attack the government's cynical exemption for Hareidim from recruiting and understand that Yachimovich is not really different from Netanyahu and his associates."

We'll appeal to Court

Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party Yair Lapid, quickly announced that he will not be joining a government which will approve the renewal of the exemption from enlistment of Yeshiva students.

"The government's intention to further confirm the Haredi exemption from military service under the guise of raising small number of an indeterminate civil service is misleading the Court and throwing sand in the eyes of the public. The Tal Law has been disabled in fact for the last four and a half months and now Netanyahu's government wants to continue the intolerable situation where a whole community does not bear the burden. Yesh Atid will not sit in a government that will not bring to a service for all and full integration into the labor market by the detailed plan which it introduced."

The party also announced its intention to appeal to the High Court against the bill.

Yohanan Plesner, the (former) member of the committee for promoting equality of burden, said that "this is another attempt by Netanyahu to put through the back door a situation which the High Court ruled can not continue."

Even Naftali Bennett, chairman of Habayit Hayehudi, choose to attack the proposal. "There are more and more haredim who want to enlist. The government must stop buying time and produce real solutions to implement in the form of service channels in which Haredim can do their part in carrying the burden."

Is the civil service is not a proper framework in which the haredi public can find a way to share the burden, Naftali Bennett has the solution. Are all those soldiers who are not on the battlefield, but serve as supporters of the war, do they bear the burden more than one in a civil service position?".

Why is this not a solution?

A famous joke tells of a religious and secular who met. Challenging the haredi, the secular says 'Go serve in the army", and the haredi in response takes out for him a certificate attesting his being a graduate of an important military battalion.

The secular doesn't despair and says, 'So go to work'.

The Haredi again refuses to get confused and pulls out a certificate that he is working as a software engineer at a large high-tech company.

The secular, left without an answer, says: 'OK, so go to hell'.

The story is clearly not true, but possible. And that is basically what we heard from various politicians today, arriving almost from across the political spectrum. Someone tried to find a solution, but we are not really looking for a solution.

The issue of integrating Haredim in the army is not an issue to be taken lightly, for decades they've been sitting on the pot, dozens of committees and attempts of legislation, eventually they understood and realized that this is a real problem, this is regarding merely changes in ideological anti-Zionistic perceptions which do not allow the military service (such as isolated populations in Jerusalem), but this is a real problem that the military framework does not fit the lifestyle of the believer.

The Haredi individual educates the best of his sons that Torah study is a supreme value, when those who fail to fulfill the mission, for lack of another choice turn to other frameworks. This education is not a political trend of the last generation or the whim of a long or another, but it is derived from the primacy of "And you shall learn it by day and night".

It's impossible that yeshiva students will be disconnected from the Gemora because of the need for military service, one should give them the chance to grow in Torah for that ultimate goal.

Other problems in the army are kashrus and modesty, and the fact that these are people who are married with families requires special arrangements to suit their modes of life.

The Tal Law, which was enacted a decade ago, worked to address these problems, and gave a solution to many Hareidim in the form of service frames adapted for the haredi sector. One who wants to eliminate and uproot it, means what he says to each and every Haredi - you stay unresolved.

And the absurdity is increased even more when all know and understand that the moment after the elections, if and when setting up the new government will depend on adding the hareidim into it, all above mentioned protesters will be quick to plead to the Haredim - come crouch under our wings, we will certainly solve the burning issue of the Tal Law

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!