{"id":604538,"date":"2026-09-03T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604538\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:26:09","slug":"shas-mk-arye-deri-claims-idf-does-not-really-want-ultra-orthodox-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/604538\/","title":{"rendered":"Shas MK Arye Deri claims IDF does not really want ultra-Orthodox soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;The army doesn&#8217;t want haredi soldiers, get that into your head,&#8221; said Deri, adding that the idea of ultra-Orthodox soldiers gives the IDF &#8220;a very big headache.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Deri added that he doesn&#8217;t need to call on haredim to enlist, saying he will &#8220;let the army deal with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Together party, responded to Deri&#8217;s comments later on Thursday, saying that the Shas chairman is &#8220;harming IDF soldiers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;They were afraid that if they woke the prime minister, I would activate the air force, and I would wake the entire IDF, and I would not let anyone get close to the fences &#8211; because we would kill them immediately,&#8221; Netanyahu claimed. &#8220;If they had woken me, everything would have looked different.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The army doesn&#8217;t want haredi soldiers, get that into your head,&#8221; said Deri, adding that the idea of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[137307,49,68108,12184,12186,11071,1031,85,1037,46,953,43,238,2396,62534,12185,122898],"class_list":["post-604538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arye-deri","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-draft","tag-haredi","tag-haredi-draft","tag-haredim","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-interview","tag-israel","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister","tag-shas","tag-ultra-orthodox","tag-ultra-orthodox-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}