Tzavah Shachor: chareidi parties have no draft solution

Tzeva Shachor campaign video (Photo: Tzeva Shachor)

The Tzeva Shachor party released a new campaign video on Wednesday built around a single question: if the Bismuth draft law cannot protect the Torah world, what solution are the chareidi parties offering for the day after the election?

The video opens with the words of HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita, rosh yeshiva of Slabodka, explaining why a law containing fifty-percent draft targets and sanctions against bnei yeshiva could not be advanced. "Because it will not be possible to continue the way of life of the yeshivos under this law," he said.

It then cuts to MK Yitzchak Pindrus, who detailed the personal, family and economic sanctions that would fall on every ben yeshiva even under the law that was presented as a solution for those learning Torah.

From there, the video moves to its central question: if this law is not a solution, and if the chareidi parties themselves are explaining how dangerous it is, what is their alternative? What are they proposing for the hundred thousand bnei yeshiva and avreichim waiting for a real arrangement? And what is their practical plan for the morning after the election?

The video then presents statements made in recent days by senior figures in the chareidi political system. First among them: Shas chairman Aryeh Deri saying "we must focus on Mashiach" because "there is no no no no solution right now," and Elikim Shtark's statement: "Don't sell the public a mirage, we have no solution."

Against those statements, Tzavah Shachor places a sharp message: "We understand that. The old parties have no solution --- we do."

"The time has come for the yeshiva world to try something else," the video says. "Instead of voting again for those who announce in advance that they have no answer, vote for those who commit to bring a real solution and protect every ben yeshiva, without draft targets, without quotas and without sanctions."