Should the Ultra- Orthodox join the army?

After having the conversation of should the orthodox join the army I thought a lot about the two sides. I've decided to write down both sides not for those who are reading this but to try and understand it better. From a secular and not religious view, Haredi Jews should join the army. They get payed from the government to just sit and pray all day while people are putting their lives on the line. Some people even say that they just fool around all day and don't even pray( Baruch.) Not only that but they force there opinions onto others. Aaron, my Jewish History teacher isn't even Jewish because his grandmother on his mother's side wasn't. (correct me if I'm wrong on that.) Even though he was brought up Jewish and identifies as such. Another aspect they enforce on people is the split between man and women at the Kotel. Yet they still don't think they have to join the army. It doesn't even have to be on the front lines but anything having to do with army would really benefit this country. But instead they decide to stay in there Bet Knesset and take the governments money.

Now the Orthodox side would say that they don't need to join the army because they are taking a different route to keeping this country safe- the spiritual side. They believe that they are protecting the country by devoting everyday of their lives to Judaism. And when people tell them that people are dieing while they sit in their synagogues they say that they devote every second of everyday to Judaism. And when people say that they enforce their beliefs on other people they counter the argument with the fact that they are already very lenient at the Kotel. One of my class mates, Lea, pointed out that the Kotel is very different compared to a synagogue. Overall they would say that there has always been a small population of Jews who spend there life devoted to prayer and they would argue that they are just trying to keep that tradition alive.