‘An earthquake in Israel’: An Israeli expert discusses the end of the Haredi draft exemption

JL;DR SUMMARY Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, an Israeli expert, discusses the recent Israeli court order ending the long-standing exemption of Haredi yeshiva students from military service, a move that could impact thousands of young Haredi men and halt subsidies to yeshivas. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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