Israel – The Israel Defense Forces will inaugurate the first military mikveh in history on Thursday, at the southern Air Force base in Ovda.
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The ceremony will be attended by the donor who transferred some $100,000 for the ritual bath’s construction, as well as senior Military Rabbinate and base officers.
According to Military Rabbinate sources, the project was launched after women living on-base complained about having to travel 60 kilometers (37 miles) to Eilat every time they wish to immerse in a mikveh.
Sources in the army say the new mikveh has nothing to do with religion and army issues which have sparked several rows over the past few months, claiming that the plan was initiated over a decade ago, during the term of the former military chief rabbi, Brigadier-General (Res.) Avichai Ronsky.
Its really confusing, married women living on military base?? With their husbands or without???!!!!!
Just like in the bungalow!
How is a women aloud to go in millatary? Didn’t all gdoulim & rabbunim (including: chazon eish, eida hacreidies, satmar rabba & many more,,) come out very sharp against that?
How is a women aloud to go in millatary? Didn’t all gdoulim & rabbunim (including: chazon eish, eida hacreidies, satmar rabba & many more,,) come out very sharp against that?
The real question should be: How is it that in a “Jewish State” there is no mikveh that is accessible by its most loyal servants and their families? And that it took a private donation to buld it?
Yes, yes, I am being sarcastic, predicating my questions on Israel being a jewish state.