Some 70% of Jewish majority rejected the claim advanced by ultra-Orthodox leadership to justify the exemption of their followers from military service Torah study by ultra-Orthodox men protects Israel no less than their service in the army.. ..…
Iran could conceivably launch missiles that might reach Israel, but as it has no nuclear weapons, and even with a crash program wouldn’t by any stretch of the imagination (or of the English language) have them “imminently,” such missiles, if they could even strike the target from that distance, would do..…
Leibowitz comes from a family of distinguished Israeli Orthodox public intellectuals. . He first came to prominence inside Israel when he signed a statement refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. ..…