In the past year, extensive staff work was carried out in the IDF Personnel Planning and Management Division to formulate a new policy for the recruitment haredi soldiers.
The IDF emphasized that the target audience that makes up this population is not only those who leave the Charedi community, but also those who maintain a religious lifestyle and still choose to enlist in military service. The IDF will therefore allow Charedi soldiers to defer their enlistment in order to complete their high school studies and retake tests to achieve a better score. New soldiers who arrived at recruitment centers will be accepted for a special screening, which will not necessarily take into account their socio-economic status and the fact that they have gaps in their core studies, but will examine their abilities through a one-on-one interview.
