Government Sheirut Leumi (National Service) officials have decided that certain Chabad activities will indeed be viewed as a legitimate form of National Service and entitle shlichim to a deferment from IDF service under the Tal Law.
A meeting with senior Chabad officials was held last week, during which the sides arrived at the agreement which recognizes activities such as preparing youths for bar mitzvah and assisting the ill and infirmed as a legitimate form of National Service.
Chabad activities that will not be included in the program are the distribution of jelly donuts for Chanukah, shmura matzah for Pesach and mishloach manos for Purim, as well as Tefillin booths at which shlichim persuade people to put on tefillin. All of these, while commendable, will not qualify as "national service?.
Reuven Gal, representing the government, met with a number of senior Chabad rabbonim, including Rav Yosef Yitzchak Aaronoff, Rav Mordechai Gurodotzki and Rav Menachem Brod.
Persons qualifying may apply and serve their National Service in a Chabad facility, resulting in their deferment from IDF service and such service will not demand they report for annual reserve duty.
They also discussed broader programs of assisting troubled youths, sending volunteers to rundown and low-income communities and other essential community services aimed at assisting the tzibur at large.
The new arrangement would apply to young men of the age of 22 that may enter the IDF following their years in a beis medresh or do community service in the Chabad framework.
(Yechiel Spira � YWN Israel)
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