|   | | | | | | Protests against the Tal Bill which exempts yeshiva students from military service continue. The Israeli poet ,Haim Hefer, tonight visited the tent of protesters ... | Protests against the Tal Bill which exempts yeshiva students from military service continue. The Israeli poet ,Haim Hefer, tonight visited the tent of protesters , many army reservists and high school students, pitched at Allozoroff train station in Tel Aviv. Hefer called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to cancel the law. He said that in the old days the Lehi fighters were Torah students who left their studies at the Hebrew University to go and help the fight for Gush Etzion.
Earlier , Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch lashed out at the decision to postpone a government discussion on the Tal law. Speaking during during a Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting, he said "We must hold a real discussion and reach a situation in which military and civilian service are shared by all the State's citizens." | | 28.01.12 - 20:56 | | Print |  |
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