A senior military source told analyst Yossi Yehoshua that a potential boycott by yeshiva heads against sending students to the Armored Corps, following the High Court's ruling mandating ultra-Orthodox conscription, could cripple the branch at a time of severe manpower shortages. The source warned that the equation from the court ruling is clear: a few dozen female soldiers annually versus losing hundreds of combat soldiers per draft cycle — a tradeoff the IDF cannot afford.
01 · How it developed
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02 · Source and signal
Source and signal
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