Around the rabbi say they were invited to a hearing in preparation for his removal from reserve service after Chanukah • Kostiner previously stated against integration of women in the army: "Jewish army is army without girls"

• Against Women Service in the IDF. Rabbi Kostiner

In the vicinity of Rabbi Zvi Costiner of the settlement meeting, Mitzpe Ramon claim that the IDF summoned him after a Chanukah hearing to oust reserve service following his statements against warring women. According to sources, Costiner was summoned after quoting as saying "a Jewish army is an army without girls. To go to the army. "

In the original investigation, tapes were recently cited in which Costiner bragged that he was working to cancel an armored combat pilot. Politicians from the right turned to Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi to cancel the hearing.

The confrontation between the IDF and Rabbi Kusitner began after Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim announced that he supported the ousting of Rabbi Zvi Costiner, head of the settlement meeting in Mitzpe Ramon, as the head of a military rabbis course. Rabbi Karim noted that his support for the impeachment was done for reasons he did not want to elaborate. About them, regardless of his statements about women's service.

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In a statement issued by Rabbi Kramer, Rabbi Kostiner was ousted from his position as a rabbi of a military rabbis course due to his remarks. "Due to the active involvement of Rabbi Zvi Shlita in public battles concerning the IDF, senior IDF commanders decided that he would not be able to give lessons in command courses and IDF 1, including a formal role in a military rabbis course," he wrote.

Rabbi Crim referred to the petition of rabbis who formed in an attempt to pressure the IDF to return, stating that he would refuse to return Rabbi Kostiner, whom he called "a super-smart and devoted student," even if the IDF approves it. "Even if a different directive is given by the senior command, I decided that Rabbi Zvi Shlita will not serve as the course's rabbi this year. This decision is not at all related to his statements regarding the recruitment of women to the IDF, but to a number of other events that I request not to elaborate in public, but are well known to Rabbi Zvi and the course commander last year. "

The IDF spokesman did not respond.