It would appear that the ongoing effort to legislate a bill that will result in a new draft law, to compel chareidim to serve in the IDF, has women’s rights activists concerned. The Knesset Committee on the Status for Women is not pleased with developing events, fearing the regulations protecting chareidim will deliver a blow to females in the IDF. Committee Chairwoman MK (Yesh Atid) Dr. Aliza Lavie is among those expressing concerns over the situation.
Joining Lavie are MKs and Ministers Limor Livnat (Likud), Gila Gamliel (Likud) and Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi). They took part in a committee session on Wednesday, 28 Tishrei 5774 addressing the matter. They are calling for the insertion of a paragraph in the draft law that protects the status and position of women in the military, for they are certain if large numbers of chareidim enter the military, women will be banned from a growing number of areas.
Lavie, Livnat and Gamliel were quite vocal in their objections on Tuesday, explaining the expected change will have a direct impact on the inherent fiber of the IDF, the result of a large chareidi induction, and this will threaten the advancement made by women in the military over recent years.
The female legislators blame the Shaked Committee members for failing to address the status of women in the military along with ongoing efforts to define the parameters of the new chareidi draft.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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newsflash…
bnei torah oar not joining the idf never have never will thsi is a bunch of hot air they will go to jail as lla the gedolim will instruct them and will not enter the shmutz house. there will never be a “large chareidi induction” women u have nothing to fear
Sick,sicker than sick! G-D runs the world!
They must choose between Chareidim and women. The two are not jointly compatible in an army setting. Chareidim cannot — and will not — serve with women.
If the women in the Israeli army were willing to act like Jewish women (properly dressed, modest, chaste, etc.) there really wouldn’t be a problem. Many frum offices and business have both male and female employees. However secular women who make a point of being immodest in clothes and actions, etc., etc. (wink), are incompatible with a large number of Bnei Torah in the army. If Israeli really decides it needs hareidi soldiers, they would have to impose reasonable accomodations (as we call it in the USA) which to the uber-secular Israelis is “religious coercion”.
If Meshiach needs an army, there will be women in the army (and some jobs really require a woman), but they will be Jewish (as we define it) women and there won’t be any problem for frum soldiers.
The Israeli Army is notorious for its rampant immorality.