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Five chareidi paratroopers last week conducted their first skydive after completing their skydiving course at the Tel Nof IDF base. The chareidi soldiers recruited in the second recruiting cycle of the chareidi HETZ (“Haredi Paratroopers”) Company in the 202 Battalion of the Paratroopers’ Brigade. They missed the skydiving course their colleagues underwent in July and completed the course last week.
The number of chareidi soldiers who joined the HETZ company in the Paratroopers brigade has been rising since its establishment. Last August, 41 chareidi soldiers joined the Company, compared with 35 in the previous recruiting cycle. The current cycle has been the third recruiting cycle since the establishment of the company, which continues its tradition of integrating chareidi soldiers in combat roles.
The rabbis of the Nachal Chareidi Organization, who have been accompanying the chareidi Paratroopers’ company since its establishment said that even though the group this week is relatively small, the course complied with all requirements of the chareidi soldiers, including separation of men and women, kosher mehadrin food and many other needs towards permitting them to serve without compromising their lifestyle.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Nahal Haredi Organization)
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Whenever I read about the Nachal Chareidi soldiers I get quite moved. It’s really an amazing Kiddush Hashem.
More essential news for the Chareidi yeshiva world. Another one of those “nisht ahein nisht aheir” articles that is presenting to readers a mixed (confused?) message. No news item that appears in any kind of media is simply “reporting the news” without comment. YWN is expressing an opinion about Chareidi boys in the IDF. Care to share with us readers what that opinion is? Or will you continue waffling on this and other issues, trying to “dance (simultaneously) at two chassanas.”