Premier Golda Meir warned yeshiva students yesterday that the government would re-consider their exemption from military service if they continued to physically assault religious authorities with whose decisions they disagreed. In a statement issued at the Cabinet meeting, Mrs. Meir said that the exemptions were not granted to permit youngsters to engage in acts of physical violence.
She was referring specifically to an incident last Monday when three yeshiva youths attempted to attack Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren while he was attending a funeral. The students were incensed over Rabbi Goren’s resolution of the Langer case. They were fined and given suspended sentences by a Jerusalem court last week.
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