Rabbis' conference against IDF conscription: 'When the Messiah comes, we'll have to stone secular Jews'
"כשהמשיח יבוא - נצטרך לסקול חילונים": כינוס הרבנים נגד הגיוס לצה"ל
Summary
At a conference in Netivot against the 'Kodkod' technology track for ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the IDF, prominent Lithuanian-Haredi Rabbi Chaim Feinstein launched a fierce attack on Haredi enlistment, amid escalating rhetoric over the draft.
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