Overview
- Bennett pledged to cancel the current Draft Law on his first day in office and to require any coalition partner to support his servicemembers’ bill.
- Active reservists would receive a NIS 1 million grant toward a first home, free daycare for children ages 0–3, and a 50% discount on utilities and municipal taxes while serving.
- All who complete mandatory service would be eligible for a fully funded undergraduate degree, with combat veterans promised funded master’s studies, five years of free public transit, and monthly childcare subsidies.
- He says the plan would be financed by redirecting roughly NIS 25 billion from existing allocations, citing guidance from former Budget Division and Housing Ministry officials.
- He predicts the law would draw large numbers of chareidi youths into the IDF and inject more than NIS 100 billion into the economy, a projection widely doubted in the yeshivah community.