Legal professional-Normal Gali Baharav-Miara informed the Excessive Courtroom of Justice on Tuesday that the federal government has but to formulate a plan to revoke private financial advantages from ultra-Orthodox (haredi) draft dodgers – regardless of proof that such sanctions are efficient – warning that the omission runs opposite to earlier court docket rulings and harms each the IDF’s manpower wants and equality in navy service.
The replace, submitted forward of a compliance listening to scheduled for Sunday, states that the federal government “has not formulated a plan for revoking particular person financial advantages from draft evaders,” regardless that focused monetary sanctions in opposition to members of the haredi neighborhood who fail to report for service have been proven to extend compliance.
The submitting is available in response to a January 25 order in a sequence of petitions difficult what advocacy teams say is the federal government’s ongoing failure to implement final 12 months’s Excessive Courtroom ruling requiring it to implement the draft regulation equally – following the expiration of the statutory framework that had enabled years-long deferments for yeshiva college students.
In that call, an expanded panel held that there isn’t a longer any authorized foundation to chorus from drafting eligible haredi males and ordered the state to undertake significant enforcement measures inside 45 days – together with prison proceedings the place applicable and the event of complementary civilian sanctions tied to draft evasion.
Petitioners have since requested the court docket to contemplate contempt proceedings, arguing that the deadline handed in early January with out an authorized coverage framework.
In its newest replace, the state detailed the size of its summons effort, noting that 24,015 preliminary registration and screening summonses have been issued through the 2024 draft 12 months throughout three waves, adopted by a further 53,741 summonses in 2025 to candidates whose service had beforehand been deferred beneath now-lapsed preparations.
Some 20,000 haredi ordered to report for service
As of February 15, the variety of haredi candidates declared draft evaders had jumped from 2,257 in July 2025 to 16,880 – whereas the quantity ordered to report for service rose from 3,732 to 22,196 in the identical seven-month interval.
The submitting added that 76,013 draft candidates throughout all sectors had both been declared evaders or issued a Part 12 order, with navy officers estimating that roughly 80% belong to the haredi inhabitants.
Enforcement has additionally intensified at Israel’s borders. Between January 1, 2025, and January 15, 2026, authorities detained 716 people with enlistment orders and a further 460 people who have been already declared draft evaders whereas trying to go away the nation; 298 of these have been subsequently arrested, and in 609 instances, exit was denied.
The Navy Police have carried out 1,240 proactive arrest operations concentrating on draft evaders because the Excessive Courtroom’s enlistment ruling in November 2025, in response to the replace.
On the similar time, navy prosecutors are making ready revised pointers that might decrease the interval of non-reporting required earlier than a draft evader might be referred for prison indictment from 540 days to three hundred and sixty five days, doubtlessly increasing the pool of people topic to prosecution.
Police representatives have warned that ongoing protests linked to enforcement actions in haredi neighborhoods – together with street blockades and clashes with safety forces – alongside broader wartime policing calls for, have difficult efforts to hold out arrests in civilian areas.
In response to the attorney-general’s submission, the petitioner, the Motion for High quality Authorities, accused the federal government of constant to defy the court docket’s ruling and known as for speedy enforcement of the draft regulation.
“It’s time for the federal government to cease disrespecting the Supreme Courtroom and act instantly to implement the enlistment regulation: to stop all advantages to draft evaders and enlist the 110,000 yeshiva college students obligated to serve,” the group mentioned. “Governance requires implementing the regulation – even when coalition companions dislike it. It’s time to implement equality in bearing the burden.”
The Excessive Courtroom is anticipated to contemplate on Sunday whether or not the state’s enforcement efforts adjust to its earlier rulings requiring equal software of the draft regulation.
