24.01.2012                      29.Tewet. 5772                       Jom Kippur Katan

Ultra-Orthodoxe:

Mofaz labels ‘Tal Law’ a failure

MKs call for better legislation to ensure more haredi men enlist in the army.

MKs across the political spectrum agreed on Monday that the “Tal Law” was a failure and called for new legislation to ensure more haredi men enlist in the army.
During a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee hearing, the panel’s chairman, Shaul Mofaz, a former defense minister and IDF chief of staff, joined forces with other lawmakers to call for the law to be changed.
The Tal Law was approved in 2002, in an effort to attract more haredi men to enlist in the army through which they could then be legally employed….