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On February 12, 1948, at the height of the War of Independence, the government-in-the-making granted the first exemption from military service to ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students. In spite of the war, wrote the heads of the Center for Service to the Nation to Orthodox leaders, they would agree to postpone military service "for yeshiva students whose Torah study is their profession." They said they would...
