The Hapoel Hamizrachi of America today statement explaining the position of the Orthodox laborite group in Israel o###### of national service conscription for Orthodox young women exempted from service.
The statement takes credit for the organization for a number of concern the present bill, including the right of religious women to assignment to take their homes to permit them to return home every evening. It takes the Agu###### to task for their current opposition to the measure, pointing out that nearly years ago the Agudah expressed support of such a measure and that the Po###### signed an agreement accepting this proposal as a condition for entry into the ######ment coalition.The Hapoel Hamizrachi statement says that the Israeli Chief Rabbinate ######tion to a national service bill does not amount to a rabbinical edict against ######ing out that the Chief Rabbinate stated last week that the issue is not of suf###### portance to cause a Cabinet crisis, the statement asserts: “In other word###### law is not contrary to Jewish law for if it were, the Chief Rabbinate would ######sisted on a negative vote by all religious parties–government crisis or no######.
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