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First of all, I appreciate your post. I attempted to comment there, but the comment disappeared into the ether.
I would like to mention some issues with the plan. I appreciate your mentioning the elephant in the room, whiich is the women. We have asituation where 50% of the women are in the army and 50% not. Sherut Leumi is a solution tailor-made for Dati Leumi, but useless for Chareidim, as we do not differentiate between drafting women for one or the other – both are equally “Yohereg v’al ya’avor”, and I mean that in the literal sense. (Druze women also generally don’t volunteer.) The only way out would be to exempt all of the women (we are the only country that does this, according to dover tzahal) and give generous benefits for volunteering. Would that violate the socialist religion?
Now regarding no benefits for volunteer work, the Dati Leumi have just managed parity for Sherut Leumi. Would you canel tihs, or would there be benefits for Zionist volunteering, and none ofr non-Zionist volunteering? Doesn’t seem to be to palatable a solution.
Now, what about the groups that have nothing to do with the state, don’t vote or take government money for their institutions? Do you think they would co-operate?
Finally, do you think that YB, Lapid, et. al. really want a workable solution? I am dubious.
A couple of notes on the facts.
The official Israeli government statistics (which admittedly have their issues) do in fact list Chareidim as the group with highest volunteer rate; 40% vs. 20% for the secular.
The other is more of a question. My understanding is that this extent of the situation is relatively recent, because before Menachem Begin became PM there weren’t that many Yeshiva exemptions. Also, I understand that many Chareidi men used to go into shlav bet, which I understand the army is not so interested in anymore.