Tel-Chai Nation

A mother whose son died in battle against the Hamas has spoken out against the ultra-Orthodox parties and movements who're using Torah as a shield for not fighting against dangerous antisemitic enemies instead of defending the country:

During a panel discussion at the Ynet, Yedioth Ahronoth, and Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Defense and Service Conference, Laly Deri, whose son, Saadia, fell in battle in Gaza, spoke out against the policy of exempting yeshiva students from military service.

"In a normal, moral, Jewish, ethical world, the first that need to go to battle are the yeshiva students," Deri said at the start of the panel.

Later in the discussion, she criticized the use of Torah study as a reason to be exempted from service: "It drives me crazy, when there are families that are being worn out and soldiers who are killed, and people hide behind the Torah... It is the biggest disgrace of G-d's name that I can hear."

She added: "The haredi public needs to hear this voice. You are wrong, you are going against the Torah."

According to Deri, the haredi public is changing, "This public is exposed to characters such as Saadia, such as Rabbi Yossi Goldberg, such as so many soldiers, and that's changing something.

"Today, there is an existential threat to the country, and we don't have time for long processes. Every 18-year-old boy and girl must serve the country in some manner, first of all in the military, since there's an existential threat, and after that in civil service in the various realms."

This is precisely why the Haredi parties, if they really care, will jettison the hostility to military service, and stop upholding the offensive position they take, which actually contradicts what even biblical Moses once pointed out to some Israelites: "would you rather sit while your brothers go to war?" Seriously, I don't think any Haredi who shuns and ignores those kind of verses really respects the Judaist faith. And if not, they shouldn't even be continuing with Judaism, period. Why, those "gurus" who uphold anti-war propaganda as they just so happen to do should be the first ones conscripted, no matter their age.

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