"We Shall Islamize, And Not Enlist!" All credit goes to Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin
An amazing way for charedim to avoid being draft-dodgers Natan Slifkin Jun 08, 2026 You can’t make this stuff up. Well, you can, and actually I myself did make it up, two years ago, as an April Fool’s Day prank . And some people condemned me as being “vile,” stating that no such thing could ever happen. And now, lo and behold, it’s being professedly seriously proposed. Yaakov Grodko is one of the hosts at Kol Berama, a popular charedi radio station based in Bnei Brak. He discusses how charedim can avoid the pesky Zionists punishing them for refusing to enlist in the IDF. He raises a point that I have heard many charedim state - that it is unfair how they are expected to enlist, when Muslim Arabs are not. And he says that in the charedi community, there are those proposing a novel solution: they can become Muslim! Of course, this doesn’t mean that they should actually become Muslim. Rather, as he explains, the idea is that they should appear to convert to Islam, but only as a ruse...
