Yosef, a Chareidi man who served in the IDF received a reserve order last week for a battalion of the Home Front Command.
Yosef realized that it was a mixed battalion, unlike the Air Force unit he served in previously.
When he appealed to the IDF for a transfer to a different unit, he was refused and ordered to report for duty. Yosef responded that he would report for service but only in a framework that would respect his Chareidi lifestyle and allow him to serve with men only.
The Torat Lechima organization that handled his case said: “This is a reserve soldier with high motivation. Yosef wants to continue serving Am Yisrael but expects the army authorities to respect his Chareidi lifestyle.”
“This incident of summoning a Chareidi person to a mixed battalion while quarreling with him and finally releasing him from the IDF – instead of placing him in a position appropriate for him – proves what we’ve been claiming for years – there is no real desire to recruit Chareidim.”
“Even in the current war, about 100,000 army graduates who are outside the reserve pool have not been recruited.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Another example of why ever Chareidi must refuse service in the Zionist’s army.
The issue is that the IDF put lots of work in establishing and maintaining regular charedi units, but until now they haven’t made a priority in establishing chareidi reserve units, probably because they haven’t anticipated this war. As far as I know, there is no chareidi reserve unit, or at the very most a very small unit that’s filled up, so it’s easier for the army to simply not call up chareidi reserves at this point. This is changing though.
Haha, I just realized now that this article ikar choser min hasefer, he was released from service when he complained, he wasn’t ordered to report to duty.
this shows it is all a bluff. 100% bluff they dont want them they dont want to accommodate their lifestyle they want them to disappear and stop taking over eretz yisroel
say it aint so evil evil zionists
“This incident of summoning a Chareidi person to a mixed battalion while quarreling with him and finally releasing him from the IDF – instead of placing him in a position appropriate for him – proves what we’ve been claiming for years – there is no real desire to recruit Chareidim.”
והמבין יבין execpt for the 15 goons on the supreme court & perhaps also their 2 registrars, as clearly these 17 creatures are seeking obscure laws never used before, simply to impose their own egregious agenda with no concern for reality [ be it reality of what is beneficiary to army or reality of supremacy/protection of תורה studies]
No one should believe your one alleged anecdotal story.
“Pay your fair share.”
Why should someone else die for you?
Oy, we have a mesora for that. Melech Dovid was on a surveillance mission and, lo aleinu, unexpectedly encountered a woman, and a beautiful and tricky at that – Abigail.
According to your version of the Tanach, Dovid immediately returned to camp and refused to proceed until Naval sends a male servant to meet him instead.
The Zionists very much want the chareidim in their army for one purpose only: to shmad them and convert them from Judaism to Zionism.
ShnitzelBigot – Before I got released from reserve duty I got transferred into a chareidi reserve unit. I can’t remember whether it was a פלוגה or a whole חטיבה. And that was around 10 years ago. It was a huge improvement compared to the unit I’d been in previously. Basically there were just minimal issues with keeping Torah and mitzvahs properly in that milieu.
But for the most part, I think the IDF has had a long history of being challenged to accommodate chareidi needs. Decades ago I was in a regular (i.e. mostly frei) reserve unit (Combat Engineers). At one point I complained that there was no way for me to get food that met my kashrus standards. I wrote a polite letter asking them to find a way to accommodate my needs. The next year, instead of the usual call-up for one week of training and three weeks of active duty, they gave me — half a day helping kasher kitchens on Erev Pesach. (In other words, ‘We don’t want no troublemakers.’)
I’m sure things have changed, to some extent, but I have a sense that in some cases, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
I suppose just as the chareidi velt has their reasons why they are reluctant to accommodate the IDF, the IDF has reasons why they are reluctant — or at least ill-equipped — to accommodate chareidi young men who step forward.
I will not kill my spirituality to pay my fair share.
someone secular can go as he has no spirituality to lose