In less than two weeks, on August 1, the Tal Law, which regulated the exemption of Charedi yeshivah students from national service will cease to exist, as the High Court ruling that deemed it unconstitutional comes into effect.
That does not mean, however, that thousands of strictly Orthodox 18-year-olds will be marched to boot camp or arrested by military police - not yet.
Every new soldier drafted into the IDF already has a place in a unit where he (or she) will serve, and the army's personnel planning begins two years before the new soldiers don their uniforms for the first time.
The Personnel Branch does not take young Charedi men into consideration, since only a small handful have ever joined up and, as a result, it would take at least a year to prepare places for even half of them.
