The battle to prevent moving the IDF’s Jewish Consciousness Unit from the IDF Rabbinate to the Manpower Branch has all be waned and the move, which was ordered by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott, is viewed as inevitable.
However, chareidi lawmakers are not throwing up their hands and they are picking up the gauntlet after dati leumi lawmakers have thrown in the towel.
To date, objections to the move were heard from the military rabbinate and dati leumi legislators, while the chareidim have remained silent. Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) reports that during the last cabinet meeting, the chareidi ministers raised the issue and they are working to prevent it from happening. The Galei Tzahal reports that Aryeh Deri, Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Gafne are going to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to discuss the matter.
Galei Tzahal reports that a senior official explains the chareidim view this as a change in the religious status quo and they are unwilling to accept it. Interestingly, the chareidim are now seeking to prevent the move, which their dati leumi counterparts have thrown up their hands in despair.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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So once it used to be that the Dati Leumi were working to make the army more ‘religious’ as they were joining it. By now that they joined it long enough there not fighting as much to make it ‘religious’.
Now the Chareidim are just starting to get more involved with the army so they are in the same position the the Dati Leumi were once in and are trying to make the army more ‘religious’. Do we see where this is leading?
According to our Mesorah Midorei Doros to Chaz”al and from Shlomo Hamelech, Klal Yisroel are not to start there own army during the time of Golus. Were certainly not aloud to join a bunch of Apikorsim who claimed to have the solution for Klal Yisroel’s Golus. Their initial ‘successes’ with the proximity to the holocaust or a Nissoyon. It is time for us to realize that.