Chareidi IDF Officer Tried To Compel A Religious Soldier To Enter An APC With Women

Chareidi IDF Officer Tried To Compel A Religious Soldier To Enter An APC With Women

February 8, 2018 12:15 pm

A chareidi officer tried to compel a religious IDF soldier to enter an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) with female soldiers. The soldier refused and was incarcerated for twelve days, Kan News military correspondent Carmella Menashe revealed on Wednesday evening 22 Shevat.

The religious soldier is serving in the Artillery Corps and a chareidi company commander tried to compel him to enter the APC, despite his objections to being in the confined closed space with females.

The IDF Spokesperson responded: “This is a soldier who was tried for the second time against an incident of refusing orders. In this case he was sentenced to 12 days in prison. ”

As mentioned, the Joint Service Ordinance recently came into the headlines due to a public struggle being waged by national religious parties, including the Chief Rabbi of Tzefas Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita.

(Yeshiva World News – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

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We learn some important lessons from this story:

1)Once you enter the IDF, you are at their mercy. They have so much power over you. The power to punish, to imprison. And who is they, a 25 year old officer. Maybe he is 22.

2)The Mizrachi/Dati Leumi/Modern Orthodox feed you this sales pitch about the religion friendly IDF. But you see, once you are in there, it's all about the military. It's like going for a job interview at a corporation. The HR person feeds you all these lines about benefits and training. Then once you get hired you find that the company just wants to make money and HR is irrelevant. The IDF doesn't care about your religious sensibilities. Look at the comment of the military spokesperson. All he knows is that orders were violated. He doesn't care that they were anti-religious orders.

3) The so-called rabbinate of the IDF just doesn't grasp Charedi sensibilities. In their minds, they are religious too. What's the difference? But there are big differences and compelling young impressionable Charedi youth to be under the total control of what is essentially a secular culture is religious persecution.