Brig. Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter criticized the debate among parties in the anti-government bloc over the enlistment of Chareidi men in the IDF.

“Almost all the politicians have been arguing in recent days,” Winter said in a video he posted. “One says he’ll draft all the Chareidim, one says he’ll draft 99% of the Chareidim, one says 70%, and on the other side they say that not a single Chareidi will enlist.”

“All those who were in politics over the past 20 years, and those who were politicians in uniform over the past decade—how many Chareidim did you bring into the IDF during all the years that you’ve been arguing over who will bring in more? What did you do, other than try to make political capital on the backs of Am Yisrael while producing zero results and zero solutions?”

“Drafting Chareidim and integrating them into the IDF will not be accomplished through populism, but through hard work and building trust. Through working with the Chareidi community itself.”

“So enough already with all this false populism,” Winter concluded.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)