While most sectors of Israeli society incite against Chareidim for not serving in the IDF, there is one group that is opposed to it.
The chairwoman of the Israel Women’s Network, Prof. Daphna Hacker, recently participated in a joint conference of the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University, where she claimed that the Chareidi Chashmonaim Brigade poses a threat to women, the army, and Israeli society, Channel 14 reported.
The report noted that Hacker’s claim, which prioritizes feminist considerations over the recruitment of Chareidim, was met with opposition from other participants at the conference.
The Israel Women’s Network responded: “The Israel Women’s Network understands the security challenges facing the IDF, especially at this time, and supports the recruitment of Chareidim into the IDF.”
“However, we warn of a serious danger to the equality of female soldiers and commanders. Women have proven their courage and contribution in the war and their significant role in the army. It is absurd that these same women, who defended the borders of the country, will now be excluded and discriminated against simply because they are women.”
“We have appealed to the IDF Chief of Staff with an unequivocal demand to ensure that the recruitment of Chareidim does not lead to the creation of spaces sterile of women, a situation that would take the IDF backward and severely damage the principles of equality in the IDF.”
Another organization from the opposite strata of society, the Wives of Soldiers For The Kedushah Of The Machaneh organization, responded to the Israel Women’s Network’s attempt to thwart the proper recruitment of Chareidim into the IDF, saying: “Radical feminism harms the IDF and the kedushah of the machaneh (sanctity of the camp).”
They issued a statement saying: “We are wives of combat soldiers who are Shomrei Mitzvos who experience firsthand the damage of radical feminism in IDF units throughout the war in the mixing of sexes, and the harm to the ability of our husbands to serve in the army in accordance with halacha.”
“Extremist organizations financed by foreign funds have negatively influenced the army through the Yahalam (Adviser to the Chief of Staff on Gender Affairs) and have discriminated against religious and Charedi men who preserve their way of life, thereby harming Israel’s security.”
“We call on Defense Minister Katz to remove the influence of radical feminism from the IDF and allow soldiers who are Shomrei Torah to serve according to halachah. Only by fulfilling ‘והיה מחניך קדוש’ will there be Siyata Dishmaya to the soldiers in battle.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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If I was in that army I would shmad also, cause if you want to say we are the British goyim and we have to fight for freedom democracy and good future and there is no choice, fine we can suffer that, but if your going to say kefira, that this is how we protect ourselves and it’s holy and before the on par with the great and that there was these miracles for us and bittul Torah etc… it’s better to shmad
Also regular soldiers decry the inclusion of women in certain roles as a hindrance to best performance, purely from strategic and operational point.
So, they’re not actually against chareidim being forced into the army, they’re just against chareidim being allowed to be shomrei Torah u’mitzvos while they are in the army. I’m glad that was clarified. There’s nothing like liberal tolerance and open-mindedness.
They have nothing to worry about. The IDF has never honored its commitments to keep women away from any of its units – chareidi or otherwise.
To the commenter identifying as a period. Being that you post comments regularly, please be considerate of your fellow YWN readers and learn to write with proper sentence structure and grammar so that we don’t need a Tylenol after reading your comments.
Thank you for your ahavas Yisroel in advance.
So anti-charedism is their reason. The hostility never stops.
Thank you Uncle Ben for pointing out that coments should be written “with proper sentence structure and grammar” and I’ll add, then proofread, before being posted. Too often I have no clue what people are trying to say.