Attorney General to High Court: Consider Revoking Financial Benefits for Yeshiva Students

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara updated the High Court of Justice that the number of draft evaders violating the law has reached 110,000, and proposed considering additional operative directives to revoke financial benefits from those defined as evading military service.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara approached the High Court of Justice again today on the issue of conscription, updating that the number of draft evaders violating the law has reached, according to her, 110,000. In the update she submitted, the Attorney General argued that the state is not exhausting the enforcement tools at its disposal, and proposed that the High Court consider issuing additional operative directives to revoke financial benefits from those defined as evading military service. This is not the first time the Attorney General has sought to advance personal and economic sanctions against draft evaders; in the past, she demanded expanding enforcement measures in the areas of housing, municipal taxes, public transportation, and daycare centers. Now, the Attorney General is asking the court to consider further operative intervention, claiming that the measures taken so far are insufficient.