Carrots, Not Sticks, Are the Way to Bring Conscription to Israel’s Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox
Israel doesn’t need more soldiers; it needs more integration.
March 13, 2018
Israel doesn’t need more soldiers; it needs more integration.
Israel’s governing coalition narrowly avoided collapse this past weekend over the objections of ḥaredi members to legislation that would increase the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews serving in the IDF. Yet the underlying problem is more widespread than that. Currently, notes Yoaz Hendel, only 50 percent of young Israelis enter the military:
Israel doesn’t need more soldiers; it needs more integration.
Defeat in war, not outside mediation, is usually what prompts negotiation.
Perhaps it was shamed by the Arab states.
Neither can the Congressional Black Caucus.
Having a Jewish grandmother didn’t stop Hildebrand Gurlitt from becoming the Nazis’ favorite art dealer.
Israel’s governing coalition narrowly avoided collapse this past weekend over the objections of ḥaredi members to legislation that would increase the number of ultra-Orthodox Jews serving in the IDF. Yet the underlying problem is more widespread than that. Currently, notes Yoaz Hendel, only 50 percent of young Israelis enter the military:
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