For the first time in IDF history, a chareidi inductee passed all the induction tests and interviews and has been accepted to the navy’s elite Shayetet 13 unit, Israel’s equivalent of the navy SEALs, Kol Berama Radio’s Mendy Raizel reported.

While he succeeded in entering the unit’s basic training, he will not be training as a SEAL but a command and control technician in the naval commando unit and he will serve at the base on the unit, not far from Haifa.

The avreich is a Breslov chossid, who was promised the conditions provided to the chareidi soldiers in the Shachar program, and he will be permitted to return home nightly.

At the same time, it was reported that there was a rise of hundreds of percent in the recruitment of chareidi soldiers in the framework of Shachar, to serve in the navy.

While in the past four years only 10 chareidim enlisted on average each year, the navy recruited dozens of soldiers in the past year. The person responsible for this revolution is the chareidi administration in the IDF manpower division.

Shayetet 13 is the naval commando unit of the Israeli Navy. The unit’s permanent base is the Atlit base and is directly subordinate to the commander of the navy. The commander of the naval commando unit is a naval officer with the rank of colonel.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)