Reply To: A Third of Israeli Youth Don’t Enlist in the IDF

Phil
How do your statements change the discussion?
Ultimately this boils down to whether or not the army is a place for frum kids. And it’s not.
If you want to argue it’s a mitzvah and accommodations need to be made, I will argue that’s nonsense.
If you want to argue there is an option called nachal chareidi, I will tell you to google a cross currents article called “nachal charedi – a reality check”
If the army was serious about wanting charedim and respecting their needs/culture they could create an entirely separate division. But what they are really interested in is assimilation.