Sixty new inductees joined the Shachar program of the IDF Air Force on Wednesday 11 Kislev 5775. The new inductees will pass a minimum three-week basic training on a Haifa air force base and then be assigned to their basis where they will be responsible for date protection, network management, and program QA (Quality Assurance). They will be in a special framework that permits davening and limud times as well as mehadrin food. Air force officials are most pleased with the sixty new inductees based on the high-level performance seen from Shachar soldiers in recent years.
They add that this is the “most chareidi” class they have had, reporting 59 chareidim and one non-chareidi religious soldier. Previous classes were about half chareidi.
Kikar Shabbos quotes and air force official explaining that in recent weeks, the stigma associated with enlisting vis-à-vis chareidim has dissipated somewhat and he feels this is why more chareidim have stepped forward. The source remains optimistic that this group will serve to encourage others to follow suit as the air forces is most pleased with the quality of these soldiers and their high-level of performance.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Hopefully they will finish with their neshamas in tact and get good paying jobs to support their brethren who are learning and protecting our land.
will encourage others – until they get in trouble for being too frum (or decide to be good soldiers and cut back on yiddishkeit)
I’ll believe things have changed when one starts reading about hiloni officers being court-martialed for being anti-orthodox, and for failing to do a good job of accomodating hareidim (similar to how the US treats officers who are racist).
R”L 60 so called Chareidim joined the IDF/Shachar/SHMAD Military. Oy gevald!!!
R”L anyone should have an attitude like simon01!
#1 & support their spouses & children?
Stam, its time to stop the culture of shnorers. Let the others make a living also.
Simon01, are you in charge of who is a charedi or not? How did you get that job?
nebach. It is bad enough that they don’t listen to the Gedolim and protect their own neshamos, but why does it have to be publicized in order to encourage others to follow suit? Our leaders are Gedolei Yisroel, not the hamon am. It is too bad that YWN needs to be part of encouraging yidden to act on their own rather than according to what the Gedolim tell us to do.
If they imagine they will be allowed to go far, they come down to the ground soon enough
‘The officer also brushed off the suggestion of establishing a special hareidi track for an officers’ course at Training Camp 1, saying “anyone who wants to become an officer should leave the hareidi track [in the IDF].”
He clarified by noting that all officers must train with both male and female units – something most hareidi recruits would seek to avoid..
..Overall, only 50% of Israel’s citizens enlist in military service in total. 37% of the new recruits are Jewish men, 39% are Jewish women and the remaining 24% are minorities (e.g. Druze) – women and men equally.’