Torato Umanuto

In June 2024, the Supreme Court of Israel declared any continued exemption of IDF conscription unlawful and the army sent draft orders to thousands of Haredi men in the following months.

[2] The source of the phrase Torato Umanuto is taken from the Talmud: "For it was taught: If companions [scholars] are engaged in studying, they must break off for the reading of the shema, but not for prayer.

"During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion reached a special arrangement with Israel's Haredi Jews (represented by Agudat Yisrael and Yitzhak-Meir Levin) in which a small part of the community's senior yeshiva disciples (400 men) would be temporarily exempted from serving in the Israel Defense Forces, but only as long as their sole occupation was studying the Torah, which a number of Haredi Jews devote and occupy themselves with for the majority of their day as a religious commandment.

[3] By contrast, Israelis who belong to the Religious Zionist community are conscripted, often under the yeshiva system of the Hesder program, which combines Torah study with military service.

Dozens of IDF reserve soldiers had put up what they called "the suckers' camp" near the Tel Aviv Savidor Central Railway Station, to protest the possible extension of the Tal Law.

Several politicians, public figures, disabled IDF veterans and high school and university students visited the protest encampment.

[9] Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the government would formulate a new bill that would guarantee a more equal sharing of the burden by all parts of Israeli society.

[13] Haredi lawmakers, members of the political parties United Torah Judaism and Shas, and supporters of the coalition government have stated their intention to walk out if the exemption removal is enforced; Anshel Pfeffer, a journalist for the newspaper Haaretz, argued that these threats were hollow.