Jerusalem – Religious male soldiers have refused to participate in a commanders’ training course for the Israel Defense Forces Armored Corps after it admitted women for the first time.
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The invitation to three women, part of the IDF’s first cohort of female combat tank operators, who finished their training at the end of last year, was announced with great fanfare earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Army Radio reported that several religious combat soldiers from the tank unit said they will not attend the course due to the women’s presence, saying it is religiously offensive to them.
The army told the Times of Israel that the courses for the men and women would be on parallel, but separate, tracks.
The women who completed their training as combat tank operators will serve in in all-female tanks for the new Border Defense Force.
The Israeli government is totally retarted. If Jewish women are taken captive in battle we will have Jewish Hezbollah fighters. This is insanity.
Good for the religious soldiers to refuse the course, but frum men don’t belong in the IDF to begin with.
this is what happens when Torah is the furthest thing in Zionism, the way Kahane would’ve done it is do away from female soldiers completely and DRAFT Arabs if they resist rescind their citizenship.
We call thar a kusher chazir foot. Serving is Chazir and doing something moral there is lil Kosher but doesn’t overway the nature of the sin of serving in the IDF.
These religious soldiers may be arrested for disobeying orders. You are in the army! You obey orders!
Well, since Orthodox men are unwilling to defend their own homes, they have to turn to the womenfolk to handle the dirty jobs.
Poster number one did not say frum people should not be defending Israel… Only that they don’t belong in the IDF – it is a big difference. And working in Manhattan is quite different.. The non Jews don’t try to forse things on us which frum people should not be doing.
As long as the men are not physically in the tank at the same time,with female tank officers, what is the big deal of joint training?