Many chareidim will be entering the IDF in the coming year and military officials hope to begin utilizing their talents in new areas. An agreement was reached between Chief of Ground Forces Major-General Guy Tzur and senior IDF Personnel Branch officials to permit chareidim to begin working with construction equipment like a back hoe and more. The first chareidi company is expected to enlist in March 2015.
Others will be packing provisions including items that are dropped from transport planes. This is a combat support role and chareidim are expected to join this unit in four months, serving in the Nevatim base.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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The YWN reporter should cite his source for the statement that large number of hareidim have decided to give up on learning Torah and become soldiers. This has not been reported elsewhere. Indeed, previous YWN reports were that the “compromise” was that some rabbanim were telling students to report to the army and tell them they weren’t going to serve, rather than just ignoring the army. Which yeshivos have decided to close down, or perhaps you took an army press release that is based on the erroneous assumption that the hareidim are about to march of the derekh in the near future.
akuperma: It is a false statement to say that just because someone becomes a soldier, they gave up learning.
There were videos of soldiers making a Siyum even during the Gaza war. Those soldiers are the ones who really learn L’shma without any doubt.
Don’t disparage them. It’s not honest.
BarryLS1: The goal of the IDF is not to get more mechanics or construction workers or combat soldiers. They have no shortage. Their goal is to have fewer hareidim. If you think the army wants them to defend the country, well, “have I got a great bridge for you”.
akuperma: You already bought that bridge and fell for that propaganda lie that you keep repeating.
BTW, You left off intelligence units too.
As far as having enough soldiers, that too is false. During last year’s Gaza war, men in their late thirties, forties and fifties had to leave their families and jobs to go fight. Many left Yeshiva’s too. If there were enough soldiers, that wouldn’t be necessary.
Also, the IDF takes women soldiers out of necessity too.
You keep spouting false propaganda and outright lies. No one really goes off the Derech because of the IDF. If they do, the IDF is just a handy excuse. There are plenty of people that became Baalei Teshuvah because of the IDF, by their interacting with Frum soldiers. I know some who are Chasidim today, with one living in Meah SHearim.
All you are doing is speaking Loshon Horoh about Eretz Yisroel, like the Meraglim, while you stay in Baltimore and delude yourself into thinking crime is not in your neighborhood, only downtown.
Does it make you feel more secure demeaning Eretz Yisroel so you can sleep better.
You don’t even know what’s going on in your back yard, how do you really know what goes on here, other than the propaganda you read?
“The goal of the IDF…is to have fewer Haredim.”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
that large number of hareidim have decided to give up on learning Torah and become soldiers. –
The enlisted Charedim are not coming from full time learning shtenders rather from trade, course school and half day jobs.