New draft and frum families making aliyah

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Sun, Jul 21 2024, 12:48 am

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Of course it's a political stunt and it's obvious IDF dont want chareidim. Now try and go and try to tell the DL ladies on this thread that IDF doesn't want chareidim.
Turning IDF ideology religious? Only when h*ll freezes will it happen...

Why do you think we are all DL ladies?

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Sun, Jul 21 2024, 12:50 am

Rappel wrote:

That's how you know it's a political stunt and that they don't really want religious soldiers. The best slap back, honestly, would be to draft en masse and turn the IDF policies completely religious. It's slow going, but it's happening.

It is not a political stunt. The IDF has worked out a detailed plan how to be culturally sensitive to chareidim.

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Sun, Jul 21 2024, 1:31 am

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

There's no doubt that the IDF would prefer many more thousands of secular and DL recruits every year than that same number of haredi draftees, if only because of the extreme and diverse difficulties involved in drafting haredim, at least initially.
The IDF manpower branch has already said that in addition to lengthening mens service to 3 years (the way it used to be until it was shortened by 4 months around 9 years ago) it would tighten the regulations that enable potential recruits to obtain exemptions on grounds like mental/emotional incompatibility and that it would discourage men with high profiles from serving in non-combat roles like intelligence, placing them in field units instead.
Still, this is just not enough. There is an immediate need to replace the thousands of soldiers who were killed and wounded since October 7th and a general need to beef up the various field units which were de-prioritized under the previous ruling (and erroneous!) conception that gave precedence to intelligence and the air force and shunted manpower and resource to those areas.
There is no choice but to mobilize all sectors of society toward the defense of this country. It does mean that the IDF is going to have to make changes and show flexibility because yes - there is a huge cultural clash despite the fact that so many soldiers serving today are religious or from traditional backgrounds. I think though that the IDF realizes this and is prepared to face this unprecedented challenge.