23.07.2012                      04.Aw. 5772

Wehrdienst:

Shas removes veto of bill on hesder yeshivot

Bill would separately legislate status of hesder yeshivot, national-religious institutions that combine Torah, IDF service.

Shas has dropped its veto of bills that would separately legislate the status of hesder yeshivot, national-religious institutions that combine Torah studies with IDF service.
Hesder yeshivot were previously authorized under the “Tal Law,” and as such their legality will end on August 1. Two bills, by MKs Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi) and David Rotem (Yisrael Beytenu), sought to prevent that situation, and passed a preliminary plenum reading on Wednesday, despite Shas’s opposition….