Haredi Party 'Black Color' Releases New Video Criticizing IDF Draft Quotas
Translated & summarized from JDN by baba
The Haredi party "Black Color" released a video criticizing proposed IDF draft quotas for yeshiva students, arguing the 50% measure would internally dismantle the Haredi community. The film depicts a yeshiva dean forced to choose which students to draft, claiming the process erodes religious life for both drafted and remaining students. The party advocates for a permanent legal status for all yeshiva students, rejecting quotas and divisions.
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- Haredi party "Black Color" released a video criticizing IDF draft quotas for yeshiva students.
- The video depicts a yeshiva dean forced to choose which students to draft.
- The party claims the 50% quota system will erode Haredi religious life internally.
- "Black Color" advocates for a permanent legal status for all yeshiva students.
- The campaign argues the quotas threaten the entire Haredi community, not just draftees.
The Haredi political party "Black Color" (Tzeva Shahor) has released a new, sharp video as part of its campaign against proposed IDF draft arrangements that would implement 50% quotas for yeshiva students.
The latest video follows a previous one that depicted a scenario of military police raiding yeshivas. This new film focuses on the internal consequences of the 50% quota system, illustrating a difficult decision faced by a yeshiva dean (Rosh Yeshiva). The video shows two friends studying together, with the dean forced to choose which one will remain in the yeshiva and which will be drafted into the army.
According to the campaign's narrative, the consequences extend beyond the draft itself. The video claims that the drafted student gradually distances himself from the Haredi way of life. Crucially, it argues that the friend who remains in the yeshiva is also affected, as the social fabric of friendships, families, and communities remains interconnected. This interconnectedness, the campaign asserts, means that the changes experienced by those drafted will inevitably permeate back into the yeshivas and the wider Haredi public.
"Black Color" contends that the 50% quota is not a compromise that saves half of the Torah world but rather a measure that ultimately undermines it. The party argues that the process begins by dividing the students, then forces deans to make impossible choices, and finally erodes the boundaries that define the Haredi community.
In contrast to these proposed arrangements, "Black Color" demands a complete and permanent regulation of the status of those whose profession is Torah study ('Torato Umanuto'). They advocate for practical and calculated legal frameworks that would guarantee the status of all yeshiva students without quotas or divisions. The party views its two videos as complementary, presenting the threat of yeshiva dissolution from both external force and internal erosion through secularization and quotas.
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