Chareidi recruits serving in a designated track experienced a series of humiliations at the hands of their commanders, Channel 14 reported.
According to testimonies, the recruits were forced to undress as punishment and remain in their underwear only. The commanders involved later tried to hush up the incident.
The serious incidents occurred about two weeks ago after the recruits completed a seven-kilometer fitness run. The recruits said that the commanders claimed that they hadn’t performed the run properly and ordered them to undress and lie on their backs on their beds in the tent.
The Chareidi recruits said they felt deeply degraded.
The recruits said that another disturbing incident took place when one of the commanders entered the shul during Shacharis and demanded that some of the soldiers perform push-ups in the middle of davening.
Following the incidents, some of the recruits were summoned last week to a meeting with the base commander and an officer holding the rank of colonel, where they were told the command staff had been replaced and the commanders involved were suspended.
The IDF spokesperson said in response that the incident was immediately investigated and that the commander was disciplined by the head of the Personnel Directorate and suspended from his position.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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They treat Chareidi soldiers like Arab terrorist. You got tone an idiot to join such a racist and bigoted army. There are no real Chareidi in the elite leadership of the army. All Chareidim and anyone with a half a brain should drop out. I just read in AMI why the lefty towns near Gaza were killed in mass over the right wing ones who survived. The lefty’s listened to the army orders to lock up their guns in a community closet safe. The right wing towns ignored these orders and had rapid fire weapons at hand to fight back. The lefty had no weapons at hand.
And they still expect us to join the army??!!
ikar choser min hasefer’s title: the commander was disciplined by the head of the Personnel Directorate and suspended from his position.
Does Lieberman call these commanders “Jews” or Terrorists?
Does Netanyahu cry out: “We will not allow….”? As they did on the Bnei Brak riots?
Serves them well. They volunteered into Zionist Wehrmacht; let them goose-step like everyone else. Army isn’t a kindergarten, humiliating punishments are part of building an efficient killing machine.
It is time – to separate Judah from Israel.
DrGoy: Was the commander sentenced to prison or just “disciplined”?
These recruits weren’t serving in Chasmonaim, where the standards of Yiddishkeit, Torah learning, kashrus, and protecteding Am Yisrael are very high.
We have to stop focusing on fringe events and creating division within Am Yisrael. We need to build more bridges that bring people together.
The Gedolei Yisroel shlita should order every Chareidi in the IDF to immediately go AWOL and never return to the Israeli military, even at risk of prison.
You know what discipline he was sentenced to this commander he was given treif chicken that day instead of treif steak
You undress Chareidi soldiers and make them do push-ups in middle of Davening. That’s not called training. They want to train let them make every secular soldier put on tefillin and stop cursing. No normal Jew should join an army full of girls,gays and trans.