Jerusalem – Details are emerging about the first female Orthodox combat navigator in the Israeli Air Force who died in a blizzard last week while hiking in Nepal.
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Tamar Ariel, 25, was part of a growing community of young Orthodox women taking positions in the army, reports Haaretz (http://bit.ly/1DAtur6).
In recent years, numbers show more and more female Orthodox Jews are joining the armed forces. In 2013, 1,616 women were in the military, despite the fact that most rabbis oppose women’s service in the army and despite the fact that the group Aluma, which advises Orthodox girls considering joining the army, are not allowed in religious high schools and state religious schools.
Ariel’s funeral shows the changing trend. Orthodox female soldiers were present at her funeral, held at Kibbutz Masuot Yitzhak, and many wonder how many other women who met Ariel at conferences and Sabbath programs with Aluma were motivated by her success and will follow her example of the seemingly hidden number of Orthodox women joining the military.
Approximately 40 hikers, including those from Canada, India, Israel, Slovakia, Poland and Japan, died in the blizzards in the Himalayas last week.
Information taken from Haaretz
Its completley against any daas torah for a women to serve in the army, and doing so should not be considered a Success.
Orthodox in what way?
There’s a saying: “99% loyalty is 100% disloyalty”.
(It’s like somebody who says “I’m faithful to my spouse 99% of the time…”)
I sure hope, for her sake, she repented before she died.
BD”E
Dear #1 and # 2: we should never be quick to make judgments. We need to always remind ourselves that after 120 years we all face the one True Judge.”
The value system of the True Judge may be much different than what we (and all the so called “daas Torah) think it is.
For all we know kindness and kind words may overshadow many of the things that we think are important.
how can you possibly make such statements. I sometimes regret becoming frum my secular friends are so much nicer than the ignorant commenters I read on this site. are you all so holy?
If you have nothing intelligent to say, please say nothing.
If you only want to malign a dead person, please say nothing.
There is a picture some have that an Israeli female soldier might be dressed or act not in accordance with halacha. That is not always the case.
This girl is said to have died because she used all her energy helping others. She overdid it and was too exhausted to save her own life.
how can you possibly make such statements. I sometimes regret becoming frum my secular friends are so much nicer than the ignorant commenters I read on this site. are you all so holy?
Apparently the accident occured during Sukkos. Given that the lady does not have to sit in a sukkah, but is that really the way an ‘orthodox’ or even ‘religious’ person observes the festival?
Where is the compassion??? Where is the gratitude that we all need to feel for Tzahal????? They put their lives on the line so that everyone else can stay home and sit in their succah???? Even if you think such an awful thought as some of you have posted here, be respectful. My goodness. What has become of us?
To become a jet fighter navigator in the IAF is something that none of the above geniuses that wrote obscene comments about this great woman z’l could never achieve. Eat your hearts out.
The Chazon Ish, Brisker Rav & Satmar Rav all held that a woman joining The Army is forbidden to the level of “Y’herog V’aal Yavor” which Is the strongest form of prohibition.
Those gedolim were universely regarded as the “daas torah” 60 years ago, & nowadays due to further moral decay, the prohibition should be even stonger today…..
I can’t believe the ignorant remarks I’m rerading about this young girl. All of you who are in Eretz Yisrael, don’t go into the army, and expect others to protect you….you should hide from shame.
The Satmer Rebbe also said women should shave their heads and outside of hasidim nobody does that.