An expanded nine-justice panel of the court headed by outgoing Supreme Court President Miriam Naor ruled eight to one, with Justice Noam Sohlberg dissenting. The decisive majority of justices agreed with the position of the petitioners, the Movement for Quality Government, that the law perpetuates inequality between secular youths who are required to enlist in the army and religious youth who are exempt. [...]
The hope of meeting the enlistment targets set by existing the law are growing less and likely every year, said the court. As a result, the law’s goal of reducing inequality in the burden of military service is not being met, wrote Naor. Not only do the data not change the conclusions about the failure of the law to reduce inequality they only validate and strengthen the claims against the law, she added. [...]
MK Menachem Eliezer Moses (United Torah Judaism) said: “The High Court of Justice once again proves how cut off the it is from Jewish tradition and how deep is its hatred for anything dear to those who study Torah and the guardians of religion. The High court continues time after time to intervene scandalously in the Knesset’s decisions. We have had enough and the time has come to return [the High Court] to its natural proportions.” [...]
Interior Minister Arye Dery, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, was swift to condemn the ruling, saying it “again proves the serious disconnect between the Supreme Court and the Jewish people, who have known through all generations that what holds us together against persecution and evil decrees was Torah study.
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