20 Elul 5786
There's such a "shortage of manpower" in the IDF that they just have to arrest and force yeshivah students into service, even if it means giving them a job instead of sending them into the fields. Not only that, they have completely ignored the abundance of actual draft-evaders among the non-observant Israeli public. And not only that but they are currently sending their volunteerly conscripted fighters home or to prison.
The Israel Defense Forces has dismissed a reserve commander following an incident in which his soldiers participated in a prayer service alongside settlers in the West Bank village of Kusra, according to a report Tuesday evening by Kan News.The military completed an investigation into footage showing Home Front Command reservists praying together with settlers in Kusra, located in the northern West Bank region of Samaria. The incident occurred while a Palestinian family was under siege in the area.According to the investigation's findings, the force commander had received explicit instructions to avoid any actions that could be interpreted as support for illegal activity and to maintain distance between his troops and the settlers. Despite these directives, when asked to complete a prayer quorum, the minimum number of ten men required for certain Jewish prayers, he authorized his soldiers to join the service.Military officials determined that the documented incident caused significant reputational harm to Israel and was interpreted internationally as army endorsement of rioters. Based on these conclusions, the IDF decided to remove the force commander from his command position. No disciplinary action will be taken against the other soldiers involved, as investigators found they had acted in accordance with their commander's orders.
As long as the IDF is controlled from the top by a bunch of real losers, there is no winning in this war unless it leads to the collapse of the current bastardized system.
And now it is admitted the Shabbat training exercise was a mistake. The mistake are those in the IDF pushing these policies.
ReplyDeleteIDF Admits Shabbos Training Exercise Was a Mistake, Says Soldiers’ Religious Rights Were Violated
DeleteCOMMANDER REMOVED: IDF Punishes Officer After Soldiers Joined Minyan in the Shomron village of Qusra
ReplyDeleteIDF to Discipline Reservist for Davening at Kever of Elazar Ben Aharon
Ofer Winter: 'We'll bring ultra-Orthodox integration into IDF - without compromise'
More and more every day...
DeleteFirst publication: The military move that discriminates against male paramedics in favor of integrating women
Religious fighters who have completed a paramedic course are being relegated to rear-line positions, while female paramedics are deliberately placed in infantry battalions. Testimony from the field raises allegations of a deliberate policy in the IDF. The rabbi of one of the fighters: "They are trying to create a conflict and drive
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DeleteThe rabbi of one of the fighters: "They are trying to create a conflict and drive a wedge between the religious public and the army"