Israeli Yeshiva schools students getting recruited into IOF: Reports

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Israeli media
24 Jan 2024 20:48

An Israeli news website reports that the IOF will recruit Yeshiva students and will set them on track to join the army.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish students study religious texts in a yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, in the "Bnei Brak" settlement, occupied Palestine, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 (AP)

Israeli media reported today that students in Yeshiva religious schools will be recruited into the IOF due to "the war on Gaza and the shortage of manpower."

An Israeli news website reported that the IOF will recruit Yeshiva students and will set them on track to join the army within a year: the students will reportedly be enlisted in training courses to be part of mobilization groups.

According to the plan, students will undergo training starting early next month. They will reportedly continue military training at Camp Dotan (Camp 80), where they will undergo a training process lasting three and a half weeks.

The Yeshiva students will remain at the base throughout the entire training period, without leaving for their homes, not even on Saturdays, Israeli media reports.

The IOF's purpose of staying at the base throughout the training period is to benefit from the comprehensive training fully.

Within two months of the end of the initial training, students will undergo two additional training sessions in the settlement where the religious school is located, once every few months.

Afterward, the students will be integrated into mobilization groups in the settlements and the relevant regional brigade.

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