Rabbi Dror Aryeh, a Rosh Mesivta in Sderot Yeshiva, said that talmidim at his yeshivah are considering filing a petition to the Supreme Court demanding equality between combat units, with Dati Leumi talmidim receiving strictly gender-segregated units like the Chareidi Chashmonaim Brigade.
The IDF also promised gender-segregated units to Dati Leumi talmidim, but the promise has not been fulfilled, and a “mixed-service agenda” seeped into the battlefield during the recent war in Gaza.
In an interview with Kan Moreshet, Rabbi Aryeh referred to the remarks he made at an emergency conference of Dati Leumi Rabbanim in the wake of the IDF’s intention to advance a pilot program to integrate women into the front-line combat units of the Armored Corps’s tank crews
In his remarks, he said that the implementation of the army’s gender separation regulations was violated during the war, creating situations in which male and female soldiers stayed in close quarters with no gender segregation, contrary to existing directives.
Rabbi Aryeh also addressed proposals for separate combat units, saying that talmidim at Sderot Yeshiva are considering filing a petition to the Supreme Court in the name of equality. “The demand is, ‘What is given to Chashmonaim should be given to us too,” he said.
He clarified that this is a cry stemming from a sense of responsibility and not an attempt to dismantle the army.
He emphasized that the lack of gender separation is not only a halachic issue but a professional one as well. “They take the victims of this agenda and insert them into the combat units, and it also harms the kedushah of the machaneh.” He added that the entry of women into combat units is effectively discriminating against soldiers who are makpid on halacha.
He concluded his remarks by stating that the main demand is a principled one, noting, “We are a Jewish army,” and emphasized the need for Siyata Dishmaya and preserving the kedushah of the machaneh as an inseparable part of the IDF’s ability to meet security challenges.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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This is what happens when you put your faith and trust in people that despise Torah and mitzvos, you end up disappointed and rejected over and over again. You think they want to comply with religious demands? Maybe if all these students and yeshiva’s went on strike and said screw it we’re not serving until you meet our demands, instead of risking souls and just hoping for the best to happen
The chilonim are disappearing the DL are seeing the light you gotta love it
The foolish Dati Leumi crowd is very nieve. They are simple people like many sfardim who believe what the fat cat pork eating army leftist elite along with their evil Supreme Court. The Chareidim are a lot shrewder. Our leaders like the old Satmar rebbe realized how these tziyonim want to destroy Judaism.