re: #248 No Malarkey!

I googled, and this three day old article indicates the Israeli AG has ordered the end of the Haredim’s subsidy to study the Torah and the beginning of conscription of their men. For their part, the Haredim are vowing massive resistance to service in the army, so it seems likely the IDF is going to find it is using more military resources to try to coerce them into complying with army service than it gets back in return. Though the silver lining here is that Bibi’s government may collapse if the Haredim withdraw their support, and he is so unpopular, he will probably lose the ensuing election by a landslide, and then perhaps finally face justice.

It’d be time-consuming and resource-consuming to try to physically conscript the unwilling, and they’ll mostly be horrible trainees and worse soldiers… but it’s just a stroke of the pen to stop paying the stipends they’ve been living on their entire adult lives.