"Un 'réfractaire' est une personne qui se soustrait à son devoir. Pendant 70 ans, nous avons étudié dans les yeshivot et agi conformément à la loi"

Évaluation

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.