A high ranking IDF officer held a press conference for military correspondents and revealed that according to statistics from the human resources (HR) department of the IDF there was a decline in the motivation of male soldiers to participate in combat units.
The IDF refused to give over the exact numbers, but they did reveal that a large part of the problem is particularly prominent in the combined vehicular forces of the Artillery, Tank and Engineering Crops.
It was also revealed that only 51 percent of the general population enlists in the military. 26 percent of the population claims that Torah is their profession and therefore obtains a deferral or exemption, while another 10 percent gain exemptions due to medical reasons.
Additionally, in the past year the IDF did not hit their intended goal with regards to the number of the enlistment of Charedim in the IDF. The intended goal was enlisting some 3,200 Charedi soldiers, and the total enlisted over the course of 2017 was only 2,850.
The IDF also revealed that due to the increased birthrate in Israel, they are expecting an additional 17,000 enlisted soldiers yearly in just over a decade’s time.
The IDF has set up a special committee to create a strategy to deal with the increased number of enlisted soldiers in the coming years. In spite of the increased number of expected soldiers to enlist in the IDF, the HR department says that Charedi enlistment is still important due to the ethical value that lies at the base of the issue.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“the HR department says that Charedi enlistment is still important due to the ethical value that lies at the base of the issue.”
Whose ethics? What value?
The ethics of the “Jewish” State and tbe perceived value to them to (attempt to) destroy our true identity (and ethical value)?
They should stick to their job of getting enough soldiers, and leave ethics to the rabbonim.
But if they are interested in their own ethics, they should begin by stopping to enlist girls to the army.
are Israeli Arabs citizens also important to uphold in the Zionist values system? The shmad continues.
The state was founded on a basis of ‘never again’, in other words that each Jew shall be able to defend himself (or attack his enemy) when required. This is achieved by training each Jew to become a killing machine (soldier). Hence the euphemism ‘ethical value’, when applied to the military.