29.01.2012                      05.Schwat. 5772

Starker Protest:

Students to cut class across Israel to protest Haredi army deferments

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to let Knesset decide the law's future, after initially saying he would put an additional five-year extension to cabinet vote.

Hundreds of high-school students across the country are expected to boycott classes on Sunday in protest at the Tal Law, legislation that allows full-time Yeshiva students to defer their military service.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to let the Knesset decide the law's future, after initially saying he would put an additional five-year extension to a cabinet vote on Sunday. Netanyahu changed course following objections by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman….