{"id":205850,"date":"2026-07-14T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/205850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:40:12","slug":"from-1948-to-october-7-the-ultra-orthodox-draft-has-always-been-israels-political-fault-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/205850\/","title":{"rendered":"From 1948 to October 7: The ultra-Orthodox Draft Has Always Been Israel&#8217;s Political Fault Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" aria-describedby=\"_S_7_\" title=\"Ultra-Orthodox soldiers during the War of Independence. Yeshiva students were granted service deferrals &quot;despite the severity of the situation and the need to mobilize all forces.&quot;. Credit: Fred Chesnik\/IDF &amp; Defense Establishment Archive\" alt=\"Ultra-Orthodox soldiers during the War of Independence. Yeshiva students were granted service deferrals &quot;despite the severity of the situation and the need to mobilize all forces.&quot;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1201\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/269921.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz x193iq5w xh8yej3 x14yg85 xl1xv1r x1s8dy9j x5yr21d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ultra-Orthodox soldiers during the War of Independence. Yeshiva students were granted service deferrals &#8220;despite the severity of the situation and the need to mobilize all forces.&#8221; Credit: Fred Chesnik\/IDF &amp; Defense Establishment Archive<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-subtitle\">&#8216;The son of one mother is killed defending the homeland while the son of another sits safely in his room studying,&#8217; David Ben-Gurion warned. Sixty-five years later, with 63,000 yeshiva students exempt, this question still has no answer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultra-Orthodox soldiers during the War of Independence. Yeshiva students were granted service deferrals &#8220;despite the severity of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,423,37,29060,2742,15347,14788,6489],"class_list":["post-205850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-high-court","tag-israeli-politics","tag-shas","tag-ultra-orthodox","tag-yair-lapid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116917674116999303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}