As tensions mount over Israel’s draft policies, Israeli commentators warned that the real objective behind recent legal and political moves is not military enlistment, but a broader campaign targeting the chareidi ציבור and the עולם התורה.

Speaking on Kol Chai’s main program, analysts Avi Blum and Yaakov Rivlin discussed the wider implications of current events, from President Donald Trump’s actions in the Strait of Hormuz to political developments in Hungary, focusing on what they described as an existential threat to the Torah world and what they called the judiciary’s silence in the face of escalating incitement.

Host Avi Mimran opened the discussion by drawing a comparison to developments abroad: “We are seeing what is happening in Hungary. A newly elected prime minister wakes up in the morning and asks the president of the Supreme Court and the attorney general to resign. Here it doesn’t work that way — the High Court preserves its power.”

Rivlin outlined what he described as a troubling logistical and moral scenario following the issuance of arrest orders for tens of thousands of yeshiva students: “Where exactly are they going to put all these detainees? We are talking about close to 43,000 people. Member of Knesset Lieberman suggested reopening the Ktzi’ot detention camp. I served there in the reserves 30 years ago — I remember the barbed wire fences, the concrete grounds, and the tents. We are talking about Holocaust Remembrance Day, and they want to open detention camps here for tens of thousands of people? The connotation cries out to the heavens. When the state was established, is this what Holocaust survivors dreamed of? That this is what would await them here?”

He went further, sharply criticizing both the petitioners and the judiciary: “When a lawyer sits and smiles and says, ‘We will dismantle the Torah world,’ he is expressing what the judges are thinking. The goal is to starve chareidi families, so that children will look for food in garbage cans. This is an all-out war led by Justice Yitzchak Amit.”

Blum argued that the court must publicly condemn such statements: “We saw letters from coalition leaders warning that if Ben Gvir is removed or the prime minister is declared incapacitated, there will be a constitutional crisis. But why isn’t any chareidi MK getting them to sign a demand that Yitzchak Amit publicly condemn the statement about dismantling the Torah world? This needs to be leveraged in our favor.”

He also expressed shock at what he described as silence from the incoming Supreme Court president: “Someone sits and says, ‘I am coming to dismantle the Torah world,’ and there is silence from those sitting on the bench. If such a statement had been made about the Arab or Ethiopian community, the world would be outraged. This is outright antisemitism. When the president of the Supreme Court does not publicly condemn this the moment he hears it, he is giving it legitimacy. The coalition must stand up and demand a complete condemnation. Our blood has been made permissible.”

{Matzav.com}