Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the Chashmonai Brigade base in the Jordan Valley on Tuesday, accompanied by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. The brigade, stationed at the Tevetz base, is the IDF’s first unit tailored specifically for Chareidi soldiers.
During the visit, Netanyahu met with soldiers and commanders and received a detailed briefing on the unit’s operations and training program. He praised the troops, noting their recent deployment to Gaza and their combat performance.
“These young men arrive here as Chareidim and leave as Chareidim,” Netanyahu said. “They come not by force but willingly. This willingness is growing within the Chareidi community.”
Netanyahu emphasized that the integration of Chareidim into the IDF should not be a source of division, but rather a unifying effort. “We can lead a process not of provocation and internal strife, but of mobilizing all the forces in Jewish society to defend our state, protect our people, and also preserve the world of Torah.”
He also referenced Israel’s regional security concerns, especially in southern Syria. “We are committed to ensuring that the area remains demilitarized and won’t allow another Lebanon to arise there,” Netanyahu said, warning Damascus that future action depends on its behavior.
Finance Minister Smotrich echoed the Prime Minister’s praise. “These are brave, high-quality soldiers who chose to serve Am Yisrael without compromising their religious values,” he said, commending the brigade’s leadership under Col. Avinoam Emunah.
The visit concluded with a show of solidarity: when Netanyahu asked a soldier if he still lived a Chareidi lifestyle in the army, the soldier replied, “Of course I am.” The Prime Minister then asked the group, “How many of you can say the same?” Every soldier raised his hand.
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By “leaving as chareidim”, the Zionist meant “with a heavy dose of Zionist heresy and nationalism added on”.
if they entered the Zionist shmad machine then they ALREADY are not chareidi as the Zionists goal is not defense but shmad, Reb Shternbuch the posek hador said ZERO compromises. The Zionists only tachlis is shmad.
Netanyahu doesn’t know what it means to be chareidi. And I’m sorry to say, it’s likely most of those brave soldiers don’t know either.
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They don’t look like the real Chareidim. These are basically Chareidi lite.
none of those people look like they “came as charedim”, lol.
step one to “being chareidi” is following the Torah and the clear psak of Gedolim: don’t join with evil people, don’t join the Zionist army.
Your name is so befitting you, but unfortunately it doesn’t express how small you really are. Consider HaZair instead. Keep on sitting on your pot of meat and ranting about “zionist heresy”, which is so passe’ that it’s not even funny. These boys are sacrificing their lives fighting wars to protect their brothers, and you’re fighting imaginary wars from 100 years ago.
Most of those in the picture aren’t classed as what is widely known as Charedim.
They may be Shomer Torah U’Mitzvos, not saying they aren’t. But they don’t look – just by looking at their yarmulkas – as what the world knows Charedim to be.
The army is trying to falsely represent and claim that it’s a Charedi Unit. It may be a Dati unit, Shomer Shabbos Unit, but it isn’t a Charedi Unit. There’s a difference.
Funny, they don’t look like chareidim
I guess Netanyahu’s definition is different than mine
Look at them. Just stepped out of Brisk!
I know one guy in Hashmonaim. Good guy, not haredi.
The lack of hakoros hatov how these men and all of the Israeli army are mesiras nefesh for all yidden everywhere is disappointing.
Were the Jews who fought in the wars in the midbar also not religious enough?