Ben-Gurion, yeshiva students: Impact Israel’s military policy, society – Israel Politics
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made a significant decision at a Provisional State Council meeting not to draft yeshiva students, setting in motion a policy that would shape Israeli society and provoke decades of debate over military service exemptions. On Friday, early October 1948, two days before Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) 1948, the … Read more
