The rabbi who recruits Haredi for the IDF against Netanyahu: "He received the message from Goldknopf, ours is the opposite"
After the Prime Minister cited a warning that never came from the heads of the Hesder yeshivot about "arrests of deserters in yeshivot," the founder of the "Hadvata" network claims in an interview with Ynet…
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The head of the Havdeta network, a rabbi working to recruit Haredim into the IDF, directly challenges Prime Minister Netanyahu, accusing him of adopting the Haredi leadership's anti-conscription stance rather than the integrationist view. The core clash is between those seeking gradual enlistment pathways and a government prioritizing arrests of draft evaders. Watch whether this internal Haredi criticism shifts public debate or policy.