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Israel’s Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, has ordered the recruitment of 3,000 students from Jewish yeshiva religious schools to the Israeli army, following a unanimous ruling from the country’s top court on Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must serve in the military. The ruling came as Israel’s brutal war on Gaza continues for a ninth month amid increasing talk of a potential new war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Baharav-Miara said that 3,000 was only a preliminary number “which does not fully reflect the army’s current needs nor advance the sharing of the burden equally”. She ordered…