An 18-year-old chareidi girl from Elad felt the forms she received from the IDF did not have to be completed and they were set aside and forgotten. As a frum girl in a seminary (high school) she could have completed the paperwork and received a deferment by bringing the standard documentation attesting to her religious lifestyle, but she did not.
Last week, on Wednesday night 20 Menachem Av, military authorities arrived at her home and took her to the Tel Hashomer induction base. She was brought before a military judge on Thursday morning, and the court explained she must cooperate by filling out the forms to receive a deferment since she is a frum girl who does not have to serve.
Having failed to do so during the allotted time period, she was taken from the court back to Tel Hashomer where she was inducted into the IDF. She was compelled to change from civilian to military clothing. After 14 hours she was released after she signed committing to return with the items she needs from home to continue her military service. Military officials at Tel Hashomer explain they compelled her to travel home in uniform.
She has since run away and is in hiding.
While she failed to complete the forms, others point out it is clear to IDF officials that girls from seminaries should not be called for military service, accusing the IDF of lacking respect for frum girls and their lifestyle.
Chareidi MKs are working to assist the girl and her family but now that she is a soldier the situation is far more complicated.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This isn’t the first time something like this has happened with Charedi girls, they did this a few years back to the daughter of a Sefardi Rosh Yeshiva.
The IDF doesn’t care about Judaism or Torah, or they wouldn’t have such a bad history of persecuting those who follow the Torah, from court-martialing religious soldiers who refused to attend a prutza concert with kol isha, to throwing a chabad soldier in Military prison for refusing to take off his Tzizis when ordered to, to the shaving off of beards and peyos of 100 charedi personnel by force, and so on and so on. This needs to stop.
UTJ and Shas are in the government coalition, so they shoudl be able to do something including threaten to leave and force new elections is need be. The neshoma of this young woman is in mortal danger and we need to do everything we can now.
what’s so hard in completing the form?
The country is exempting you from years of service that others do and all that is asked of you is to fill out a simple form. If you are so full of yourself that you won’t even be bothered to do that then maybe some jail time will do you good. Obey the law.
She should have filled out the required forms and there would have been no problem.
Shem risho’im yirkov
Maybe the MK’s should just have one of their assistants help her fill out the form?
Am i missing info ?
Why didn’t she just fill out the form?
Wow what a fiasco!
Is the IDF military police nuts? Couldn’t they figure that this was a mistake? Coming to a house in the middle of night is absurd and degrading as they do to arrest “Jewish terrorists” and to detain her a detention center for hours is a lack of dignity?
NOW on the other hand….
Why didn’t she fill out her simple forms for an exemption? Laws are laws and the police only carries out the consequences. This has nothing to do with Ashkenaz or Sefardic individuals.
“She was brought before a military judge on Thursday morning, and the court explained she must cooperate by filling out the forms to receive a deferment since she is a frum girl who does not have to serve” – THEN WHAT HAPPENED? DID she have the choice-ability-time to fill them out then?..or did she refuse – ignore ?
This was entirely self-inflicted – she refused to complete the forms even when given the opportunity to do so at the military base. She is trying to create makhlokes, and put the tzahal in a difficult position (what, so now anyone can just say they don’t feel like following the law? What if every seminary girl just doesn’t feel like it? and their brothers, and then the dati leumi and secular girls, etc). Shame on her and whoever told her to act like this.
Israel is full of bullies. The land of bullies.