Journalist Yinon Magal is reading the prepared remarks of a training commander in the Hasmonean Brigade that were not heard during a Supreme Court hearing on the law freezing arrests of Haredi draft evaders, according to The Zioneer. The reading follows the publication of the same remarks about an hour earlier.
The Zioneer reported earlier this evening (22:23 Jerusalem) that Yinon Magal had published the prepared remarks of a training commander in the Hasmonean Brigade, which the commander said were not allowed to be heard during a Supreme Court hearing on the detention law. Now, at 23:25, Magal is reading those remarks aloud, further amplifying the commander's argument that the arrests of Haredi draft evaders are counterproductive and that the court's agenda is to prevent Haredi military service. The hearing itself, held earlier Tuesday, drew sharp reactions from justices and IDF officials.
The commander's identity has not been disclosed in this report, but the remarks are part of an ongoing controversy over the Knesset bill to freeze arrests of yeshiva students who evade conscription.
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- DevelopingIDF personnel chief opposes bill freezing arrests of yeshiva draft evaders
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