Unconvincing Protests in front of the IDF General Headquarters, Tel Aviv Are they bored and paid by the government to protest against Haredim?

Israel’s Numerus Clausus
The new law can’t be defined but as racist. Israel is imposing an inverse Numerus Clausus on Haredim. The Latin phrase for “closed number” was used many times in history to limit the number of Jewish students in universities. The new law introduces a malevolent twist in this discriminatory device.
According to the new law, everybody will be forced to reach the conscription office at age 17; failure to do that would be a criminal offence. Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim and Hasidim) will get a delay in their service until they are 21. Out of the 8,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews about to be recruited every year, 1,800 of them who have proven to be “persistent in their studies,” i.e. they haven’t dropped from the Yeshiva Jewish college, will be awarded a permanent release from service. The IDF will be given preference upon the others; if rejected by the IDF, they would go other State services.
Until now, the law looks reasonable. However, it included an inverse racial quota to the Heads of Yeshiva Colleges. If their colleges would fail to supply a given quota of conscripts, they would be financially sanctioned by the State, which would cut their budgets as per the percentage of failure. Heads of Yeshiva Colleges would have personal responsibility to give yearly reports to the State on their “harvest.” Could you imagine Germany passing such a law?

Winner Lapid, Loser Netanyahu
Lapid wasn’t happy with this victory. In a typically Israeli fashion, he needed to humiliate the opponent. Accordingly, the new law shortens the service to secular men, who will serve 32 months instead of 36. Secular women get punished; they will serve 28 months instead of 24. Playing guitar like a rock star and speaking like a cheap demagogue, Lapid slowly lowered his torch and set on fire a path of fuel leading to Israel’s heart.
A few days after the elections I read an astonishing interview given by a minister of the former government who stayed anonymous (Israeli Minister: “There will be a civilian revolution”). His ominous words regarding what will happen if the new government decides to recruit Haredim are becoming reality: “There will be protest rallies of thousands and tens of thousands on the streets, thousands of yeshiva students will fill up the prisons, the military police will run amok in Bnei-Brak [trapping those refusing recruitment in a town populated by Haredim], there will be a civilian revolution and andralomusia [from Greek, androloimosso, used here in the sense of chaos]. The worst thing is that those [Haredim] who go to the army now, will stop immediately.”
One of the first reactions to the new law came from Haim Valder, a Haredi leaving in Bnei-Brak, who said to newspaper Yediot Ahronot: “I know that this can cause giggling, but we giggle at Lapid’s thought that if Haim from Beni-Brak and Asher from Jerusalem [he mocks the condescending words of Lapid after his victory] will hold weapons in their hands things will become better here.” In recent months, he had compared Lapid to a Nazi several times.
The issue was summarized a long time ago in a different continent and by other people: “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government” (from the Preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence). Mr. Lapid, is the IDF ready to deal with a civilian revolution?

^** “Hyrax-eater” is a Hebrew idiom for “pagan;” hyrax is a non-kosher animal. “Ochel-Shfanim” in Hebrew, “ch” like in “loch.”