Communications

Offiziell beanspruchen die Ultraorthodoxen die Befreiung vom Militärdienst aufgrund ihrer Studien in religiösen Schulen, die sie mit aktivem Kampf gleichsetzen, da sie glauben, dass Gott das jüdische Volk beschützt“, sagt Ariel Heimann, leitender Forscher am Institut für nationale Sicherheitsstudien in Tel Aviv. „Es wird jedoch weithin angenommen, dass die Stipendien, die sie...

Sixty-eight percent of the general public opposes the Knesset bill that would grant a blanket exemption for haredim from IDF service, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said Wednesday in a report. Around one-third of parents with children ages 16-18, meaning in the middle of the IDF recruitment years, said they would discourage their children from joining...

Professor Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies and former head of the Palestinian desk at Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry, noted that the decision to set up a Civil Administration as a separate entity responsible for civilian activities—Jewish or Palestinian—in Judea and Samaria was taken in 1981, during...

“What we are seeing is the use of military force with the purpose of harming military fitness in order to achieve a political goal,” said Professor Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies. “The damage to military preparedness is enormous, but also this has harmed the status of the military within Israeli society and breached the trust...

Former deputy national security adviser Chuck Freilich said the resulting harm to military morale and disruption from potential personnel shortages were “severe threats to the Israeli Defence Forces”. A researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, Mr Freilich now teaches political science at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University in the US.

Chuck Freilich, a senior researcher at The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv who served for over 20 years in Israel’s national security establishment, said that Israel is at a historical “inflection point,” in which “extreme measures may have to be taken to endure Israel’s fundamental character of democracy.”

IF the government moves ahead with the legislation, more refusals are expected. If these take root, and especially in the air force, the military’s performance will take a hit, said Idit Shafran Gittleman, a senior researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies. How big of a hit will depend on how widespread the refusals become and how the military responds to...

“The professionals and the conscripts are there to hold to the line, but you need the reservists to win the war,” said Chuck Freilich, a former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council and a senior fellow at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. Reserve pilots in particular are central to keeping Israel on a war footing, he said,...

“The model of the IDF as the ‘people's army’ is at risk of dissolution,” cautioned the Institute for National Security Studies – a Tel Aviv-based research group with close ties to the defense establishment whose team includes multiple former senior IDF commanders and National Security Council members. “This can result in a weak military and lead Israel toward a precarious...

If the government moves ahead with the legislation, more refusals are expected. If these take root, and especially in the air force, the military's performance will take a hit, said Idit Shafran Gittleman, a senior researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies. How big of a hit will depend on how widespread the refusals become and how the military responds to...