According to the Kronen Zeitung, the compulsory conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews is making waves: <\/p>\n
\u201cWith just under a week to go before the elections a campaign bombshell has exploded, stirring up emotions like hardly any other issue: the privileges enjoyed by the ultra-Orthodox (known as Haredim), particularly when it comes to compulsory military service. Israel is at war and there is a shortage of soldiers. Now the army has made an example of them. It intercepted a flight bringing young Haredim returning home from New York at Tel Aviv airport. Two coaches were waiting outside: the one on the right to take them to collect their uniforms, the one on the left to take them to a military prison. An outcry from the Haredim ensued. For years their parties \u2013 as sought-after coalition partners \u2013 have been extorting precious privileges. … The Haredim have become a test of faith in the truest sense of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Kronen Zeitung, the compulsory conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews is making waves: \u201cWith just under a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-654807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654807","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=654807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}