Important Takeaways:

• The IDF says it will begin to send out initial draft orders to members of the Haredi community, starting on Sunday.
• The orders are the first stage in the screening and evaluation process that the army carries out for new recruits, ahead of enlistment in the coming year.
• The IDF says it aims to recruit members of all segments of society to the military, “by virtue of it being the people’s army and in light of the increased operational needs at this time, in view of the security challenges.”
• Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life and fear that those who enlist will be secularized.
• Many Israelis who do serve, however, say the decades-long arrangement of mass exemptions unfairly burdens them, a sentiment that has strengthened since the beginning of the war, which has seen over 300 soldiers killed on Israel’s various fronts as well as over 300,000 citizens called up to reserve duty.

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