A member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudat Israel, the Rebbe of Slonim, arrived this afternoon (Thursday) at the home of the Rebbe of Gur in Jerusalem.
The visit was apparently prepared in preparation for a gathering of the councils of Torah gurus of AGU, Degel Hatorah, and Shas, regarding cooperation with the military authorities.
The Rebbes from Vizhnitz and Slonim take an extreme line on the issue of conscription and reporting, calling for the severance of cooperation between the yeshivahs and the IDF.
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• The plan is revealed: This is how designated IDF interviewers will operate with yeshiva students
At the council meeting held on Adar 1, the rebbes decided that if criminal sanctions were imposed, the members would gather again for a joint discussion regarding cooperation with the army and the new law.
The Grand Rabbi Steinman and members of the Council of Torah Scholars of Degel Hatorah are currently taking an approach that calls on every young man who receives a first or second order to report to the recruitment offices.
The meeting between the Rebbes lasted almost an hour. There was no one in the room except the Rebbes themselves. Afterwards, the Rebbe of Slonim spoke with MK Yaakov Litzman.
Haredim10 learned that the chairman of the yeshivot committee, Rabbi Chaim Aharon Kaufman, visited the Haredi screening center in Tel Hashomer today, in preparation for a decision on the matter.
Today, details of the plans regarding the recruitment of Haredim were revealed on the IDF website. However, after the plan was published inHaredim10 - The article was removed and deleted from the IDF website.
The published article indicates that, contrary to the statements of Brigadier General Gadi Agmon, starting next month, "designated interviewers will be stationed at the recruitment offices to speak with the candidates for security service (candidates) belonging to the Haredi sector. Two IDF civilian employees, graduates of behavioral sciences and with personal closeness to the Haredi sector, will be stationed at the Tel Hashomer recruitment office and the Jerusalem recruitment office, where they will speak with the young people in a language adapted to their world, as part of the interview conducted for boys in the first order.".
""We developed the special interview so that it would replace the personal interview, and would be adapted to the life of a yeshiva graduate, who is from a religious school with a different world of concepts than a secular boy his age," Lt. Col. Sharon Fisher, head of screening systems development at the MDA (Behavioral Sciences Department), told the IDF website.
The two new interviewers underwent special training designed for them, and even helped build tools and scales that were appropriate for the unique population. "This interview was intended to test the expected adaptation to military service," explained Lt. Col. Fisher.
