Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb briefed officials on data regarding Chareidi recruitment in a meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday.
During the meeting, Labor MK Efrat Rayten asked Tayeb: “Why hasn’t the IDF Chief of Staff met with women’s organizations regarding the recruitment of Chareidim?
Tayeb responded: “Women are not a target population in the process.”
But Rayten wasn’t referring to the recruitment of Chareidi women; she was referring to secular women whom she claims will be discriminated against due to Chareidi recruitment. She responded to Tayeb: “In other words, female soldiers, who are excluded and harmed by the demands for separate-gender spaces, are not even being considered.”
Tal Hochman, the head of the Women’s Lobby, quoted Tayeb’s statement on X, adding: “The Women’s Lobby understands the security challenges facing the IDF, and certainly at this time, and supports the recruitment of Chareidim to the IDF as part of it being the people’s army. However, we warn against 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 women, who defended the borders of the country with their bodies, will now be excluded and discriminated against simply because they are women.”
“We have turned to the Chief of Staff with an unequivocal demand to ensure that the recruitment of Chareidim does not lead to the creation of separate gender spaces—a situation that will take the IDF backwards and severely damage the principles of equality in the IDF.”
Labor MK Merav Michaeli wrote: “The more Chareidim who enlist, the more built-in discrimination in the advancement of women there will be. Separation between women and men in academia has caused discrimination against women,” she falsely claimed. “It has spilled over into the public space, into dress codes, in the library. It harmed lecturers who cannot teach men. This is the process I fear will happen in the army. It’s already happening under the radar.”
“The marking of women as something that men can say, ‘I won’t be where that creature is’ is destructive to any society. It legitimizes continuing to exclude women. This is a great danger to the IDF,” she concluded.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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> “who are excluded and harmed by the demands for separate-gender spaces”
Sounds like this person is asking for men to be forced to use female facilities (wahsrooms, chagning rooms etc)?
> “I won’t be where that creature is”
That sounds so much like what women say about each other, and certainly what women say about men (as a current example – women openly publicize on social media that they would rather be trapped in an elevator with a bear than with a man).
Proof positive that enlistment of chareidim is meant to shmad them
First they tell them to enlist and they’ll be accommodated, then when they do they say it violates other people so the accommodations will be removed
Sounds like an old trick that pharaoh used
Great, let those leftists feminists campaign against the chareidy draft, perhaps they want to join the Peleg demonstrations?
This is the bizarreness of the left on the WZO, who is spearheading all of these crazy attacks on the Chareidim community. They have the funds on the WZO to give to the reform movements in Israel to go against them in the Supreme Court. Like in the US, the Supreme Court won’t act unless there is an actual lawsuit. Going through litigation takes a lot of time and money and now the left probably has even more money than last time to use in the WZO to continue these things. Just look at prior Supreme Court cases and you will see the reform organization spearheading most of this.
What amazing times we live in
The conservative are begging Charedim to follow the Gedolim and to not vote in WZO
The Chayalot are begging Charedim to stay in Yeshiva and not join the IDF
They are idiots. If they want chareidim in the IDF, they must create the infrastructure for it to succeed. They want chareidim, but only on their terms, without a religious infrastructure that would be acceptable. Under these circumstances I would support a full boycott of chareidi enlistment.
Women should not be in the army altogether.
“Labor MK Merav Michaeli…”
Isn’t this the granddaughter of the Zionist Kastner, the man whose assistance enabled the Nazis to murder the million or so Jews of Hungary?
Lakewoodblt:
No, they are not idiots. They are Zionists. That means that they want to shmad and convert all the Jews in their army from Judaism to Zionism.
If Chareidim want to skip the draft stop protesting and learn and daven in yeshiva to Hashem