🚨Israeli Police FORCED TO FLEE in Mass After Shocking Incident in Modiin

To many outside of Israel, this is a very confusing situation.

Why are there still so many IDF draft dodgers in Israel, and why especially amongst Israel's most religious sectors? And why does this seem to be such a sticking point for the Israeli public and for Israeli politics more broadly? Since the beginning of Israel's modern history, the Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox, have been able to avoid the mandatory conscription in Israel.

The reason given is because these young men choose to study the scriptures in yeshiva during the period of their draft instead of military service.

And historically, this has been accepted pretty generally inside of Israel.

The thought process is that Israel needs soldiers to fight both on the physical front and on the spiritual front, thus the young men studying the scriptures were fulfilling just as vital of a role as the men fighting on Israel's front lines.

Plus, the ultra-Orthodox represented a very vocal and very powerful bloc of Israeli voters, and, uh, changing the status quo could be explosive.

But just over the past couple of decades, Israeli public opinion has been slowly changing.

Israel has had to fight in war after war, and the manpower toll on the Israeli public has been severe.

And it's very tempting to look at the some 80,000 fighting age ultra-Orthodox who aren't serving to possibly help take some of the brunt of the burden.

This led to the Israeli government, back in July of 2024, finally ending the general exemption for the ultra-Orthodox community.

Exemptions were still handed out for specific circumstances, but generally, most ultra-Orthodox are now required to serve their military time.