HaGaon HaRav Meir Tzvi Bergman spoke about Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s announcement earlier this week that the IDF will begin sending draft notices to thousands of bnei yeshivos. Speaking at a Shuvu event held in his home, the Rosh Yeshivah said: ” Everyone knows that for a bochur to be in the army for even one day is mamash Shmad. The entire battle now is a battle for the Melech, for Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” “We need to know now that it’s forbidden to cooperate with them. One fool [referring to Gallant] comes along and sends drafts orders. We’ve already said several times that we’re obligated to be moser nefesh for this.” HaRav Bergman has said more than once that his father-in-law, HaGaon HaRav Elazar Menachem Shach, z’tl, told him that if it becomes relevant –  to publicize to the public in his name that the gezeirah of the recruitment of bnei hayeshivos is a gezeiras shmad [שמד] and it’s necessary to be moser nefesh for it like it’s explained in the Shulchan Orech Yoreh De’ah. “And therefore, if we are tested in this, we must oppose it with all our strength, to the point of mesirus nefesh,” HaRav Bergman said in the name of HaRav Shach, z’tl. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)