A combat unit in the Givati Brigade of the IDF, the Tomer Charedi unit, is absorbing 60 new Haredi recruits while the Netzach Yehuda battalion, another haredi combat unit, will be absorbing 140. Another 350 Charedim will be joining technical units in the air force, navy, intelligence, technology and logistics, and teleprocessing corps.
The intake in the Tomer company is higher this year due to frequent requests from soldiers in the young company, established in August 2014, to serve as officers.
Several soldiers from Tomer are already in officers training and in four months they will then return to the haredi company to serve as commanders.
An IDF source said that 1 in 100 applicants is accepted to the Tomer company. The rest are on a waiting list for the next draft and are given priority for it.
According to the source, Tomer was designed specifically for mainstream Charedi youth who had attended yeshiva and decided after several years of study to enlist in the IDF.
The Netzach Yehuda battalion is more broad in the religious observance of those they take in which includes the Charedi and religious communities, as well as some less conservative within the Charedi world.
Those who apply for Tomer and are still in yeshiva are told to reapply only once they have left in order to avoid friction from the Yeshivas.
The source said that Tomer shows that there is a growing desire among mainstream Charedi youth be in combat. He added that the annual enlistment targets from the Charedi sector for the year 2015, which for the IDF is July 2015 to June 2016, will be met and that in general efforts to draft Charedi men into the IDF “are going in the right direction.”
(Source: OnlySimchas.com)
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May the need for an IDF come to an end as peace reigns in the world. Till then, the ability for a ‘Kiddush hashem’ is huge.
Ken Yirbu!
What constitutes “mainstream Charedi youth”? Can someone please define “Chareidi” in this context? It’s lkike reporting “…As more mainstream chareidi youth in Lakewood hang out at the lake on Shabbos smoking…” Ah hah.
And NO of course I am not comparing serving IDF and chillul Shabbos- just use of the term “Chareidi” in context of cultural norms.
maybe theyll be bring actual “jewish values” as the people running the show now hate Yahadus.
Seems like Tz”hal has the right idea on how to get more of the Chareidim to join the army, and it looks like they will succeed.
Is that a good thing?
If Tza”hal is a good thing then it is good. If it’s not… then no Jew should be there.
Where is Tzh”hal leading us to? Where did it come from? Is this what we were COMMANDED TO WAIT FOR??
Millions of Jews are following the Tzha”l/State of “Israel” leadership. Where, when, and how did it all start? Where is this all leading too???
Questions to ponder…
Truth
Life has many twists & turns, what is good for one is not good for another.
This should be the place for all young men except for the very few exceptional ones that can be deemed the next generation of leaders. For those of you that are afraid that your sons will be led off the derech, if they did not get your values in the first eighteen or nineteen years they won’t be getting them later on. I speak from experience and pride that my son and sons in law served and continue to serve the country and ה.