'Draft dodger' is a person who evades his duty. For 70 years we studied in yeshivas and acted according to the law
As the representative of Yahadut HaTorah on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Yaakov Asher witnesses the IDF manpower crisis, and still claims that the war over the draft law was intended only to topple…
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As a UTJ representative on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Yaakov Asher has front-row access to the IDF manpower crisis yet frames the conscription law fight as a political campaign to topple Netanyahu, not a genuine military need. He is now pushing a bill to freeze arrests of deserters while acknowledging he never urged non-students to enlist, drawing a false equivalence between dodging the draft and evading taxes or drug laws. The interview exposes how a party central to the governing coalition subordinates national security obligations to its sectoral interests.