“He has stealth, he has speed, he had an exit strategy, he had situational awareness.”
Jerusalem, January 13 – A Haredi protester against mandatory military service demonstrated such prowess at evading security personnel at a rally yesterday that elite units have expressed interest in recruiting him for critical assignments behind enemy lines, a spokesman for Israel’s military disclosed this morning.
Colonel Dodi Hamak told reporters that the youth, whose identity remains concealed given concerns about operational security, showed such skill at throwing police off of his trail, right after lofting projectiles at them and sabotaging equipment, that his value as an asset in the field became apparent to all those who viewed what little usable footage caught him on camera.
“This is a guy we want for one of our special ops units,” stated Col. Hamak. “He has stealth, he has speed, he had an exit strategy, he had situational awareness. We get this guy into a tactical unit, there’s no telling how much we can achieve.”
Hamak declined to specify what types of missions the unnamed youth might perform. “It’s a flexible skill set, applicable to a wide variety of situations,” he equivocated. “Arresting suspects in Judea and Samaria. Neutralizing threats in Gaza. Reconnaissance in Syria or Lebanon. Clandestine work in Iran, Turkey, or further afield. All options are on the table, depending on the direction the recruit wishes to take.”
Legislation aimed at curtailing the exemption from the military draft that yeshiva students have long enjoyed has sparked vehement opposition from Haredi quarters, where the move is seen as yet another in generations of attempts to cripple the Torah-learning-centered lifestyle that the Haredi community has made its rallying call. Haredi parties in the Knesset have frequently made the maintenance of that exemption a core condition of any coalition agreement; with a fractured polity in which a handful of seats can make the difference in forming a government.
The recent wars with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran changed that dynamic: the strain and pain of combat loses, injuries, and absences of men from their families, for protracted periods not seen since 1948, before any exemption for hundreds of thousands of Haredi men – who then numbered far fewer anyway – altered Israeli tolerance of the Haredi exemption, exacerbated by widespread Haredi dependence on welfare entitlements at the expense of the taxpayer. Both sides have dug in their heels, with Haredi-anti-draft protests often requiring riot-suppression measures by police, which triggers further outrage.
“We’re looking for more such candidates,” acknowledged Co. Hamak. “We need more men who, when passions around them are heated, can maintain a cool head and follow the battle plan. We’re going to have recruiters at all the rallies now, looking to identify a few good men.”
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