Drafting Yeshiva Boys Early

There is an issue right now with the defense systems because of the war. Schedules are messed up, they need soldiers, they need soldiers to be available, they need to rotate soldiers, they need to be prepared for possibilities in the north and maybe elsewhere. This war messed up the normal routine of the IDF, just like it did for everything else in the country, and that includes draft dates and training schedules.
One of the solutions is to draft a bunch of people waiting in the ranks earlier than planned. Defense Minister Yoav Galant came up with a plan to draft 1300 young men earlier than originally scheduled. That includes drafting hesder boys earlier than planned, mechina students earlier than planned, yeshiva boys from the Dati Leumi yeshivas (separate from hesder), Service Year volunteers, and others cutting their programs short and bringing them earlier than scheduled to the IDF.
I am not going to argue with that solution or support it. I wont even comment on it. It does not affect me and I do not have an opinion on the matter - I do not know the positive or negative effects doing this might have on the draftees and how that weighs against the needs of the army. They are doing it, or working towards doing it. Ok. 
Interestingly, this needed to be discussed in the Knesset. Galant himself was, understandably unavailable to appear in the Knesset to discuss the plan and to defend it. What commonly happens in such situations is that the government appoints another minister to present and defend the plan to the Knesset in place of the absent party.
In the case of this law the minister selected to present the plan was Minister Meir Porush.
Regardless of anything anyone might like or dislike about Meir Porush, he is a representative form the Haredi parties who do not generally send their electorate to the army - they work on behalf of getting their electorate exempted from army service.
So, Minister Meir Porush stands up there at the Knesset podium telling everyone how important it is to fill the shortage of soldiers in the IDF by taking DL yeshiva students out of yeshiva early into the army, but God forbid his own young men should be taken out of yeshiva to help fill a shortage of soldiers.
Was nobody there smart enough to say maybe he isn't the right person to represent this issue? I don't know his position on the matter but maybe Smotritch (I havent heard him oppose it, but maybe he does) should have been the person to present it, considering it is somewhat (largely?) his electorate, or maybe a minister from the Likud...
This government has been dysfunctional from day 1 and is pretty much nothing but a major troll on everyone else.
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