Haredi recruitment raises controversy in Israel, and the reason is economic. Defense Minister Yoav Galant called at the end of last month for the enactment of a new law abolishing the exemptions from conscription and military service enjoyed by ultra-Orthodox Jews.
The Haredim refuse conscription into the army, considering Israel a secular state. The number of Haredi in 2022 reached about one million and 280 thousand people, compared to 750 thousand in 2009. The Knesset approved the call-up of 350,000 reserve soldiers to the army with the start of the war on Gaza.