Earlier this month YWN-ISRAEL reported that ZAKA volunteers assisted by the generosity of others, managed to provide food for Nachal Chareidi soldiers on an IDF base just hours before shabbos. It has now been learned that a platoon commander paid a price for permitting this act of chessed for he wanted the soldiers to have hot shabbos food and not have to make do with cold battle rations. The junior officer has been remanded to his base for 28 days, his punishment for permitting a simple act of chessed.
The Office of the IDF Spokesman explains that in such instances, the battle rations are the solution on hand, as was the case here. The officer was found in violation of guidelines, permitting civilian food into a military facility that was not from the only body authorized, LIBI.
The spokesman explains the officer simply acted without authorization and therefore, he was judged and sentenced in line with IDF regulations.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Did this story take place in an Arab country? Oh, right . . . that’s the true face of Israel in 2012. After all, he “acted without authorization” in order to assist Shomer Shabbes soldiars. What was this commander thinking?! It’s good to know that the Army is so accomidating to people that are interested in having true kavod Shabbos. It’s times like this that I take a step back and think about what a ‘wonderful’ country secular Israel is for religious people.
So much for their claims of acommodating us in the army.
There might be more to this story.
What about if a IDF officer got food from private distribution and there was a kashrus issue, wouldnt we want to know that there are rules and regulations to abide by?
I thought we lived in a democratic country I guess even ones closest to us dont like us. What a shame we need peace for Mashiach
#3 is probably right. The IDF does not allow soldiers to bring food from outside sources in order to maintain kashrut. Individual commanders aren’t allowed to pick and choose. Once one soldier is allowed to bring in mehadrin food, the next will bring what R. Shach called rabbits.
There is a deep current of anti-Chareid anti-Semitism in Israel, and every once in a while it is exposed to public view.
It’s not a pretty picture.
#3, “what if?”. But there wasn’t. It was obvious in the situation that the right thing to do was to permit it. Do you not want officers to show initiative and deal with reality as it presents itself?
I think that there is something missing from this story. We need more information on why the Army did what they did. Was it for training purposes , against the Nachal Chareidi or for just accepting outside food Libi?
4.
You live in EY and you think you live in a “democratic country?”
I guess you haven’t figured out that all you are is a country based on European Socialism – much like what OblameO wants to do in the USA.
Mark my friends the israeli government is based not on European socialism but communism. The leader were from Russia and Israel loved May day and were upset when comrade Satlin died yemach shemo
zionflag, this time you don’t have a case. The food that was brought was not cooked in the army’s kitchen facilities, so its kashrut was not an issue. Do you mean to say that soldiers cannot bring food with them to the base regardless of their kashrut? It was private food. The army was embarrassed for being caught w/o food for the chareidi soldiers on Shabbat, so they made the platoon commander their scapegoat.