Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick strongly attacked IDF conduct in Haredi recruitment case • On Shabbat culture in Raanana, he claimed: "Senior military officials know, police investigation is required"

• Maj. Gen. Isaac Brick at the Shabbat Culture Event // Photo: Gideon Markovich

Former Commissioner of Military Admissions, Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, issued a harsh criticism of the Haredi mobilization case on Saturday. "The findings are in the hands of donkeys," Brick said. "There is civilian involvement, so police investigation is needed." He said he has well-established and worrying information about the conduct of the matter.

Brick spoke in an interview with Liat Regev, on a Shabbat culture for boys in Ra'anana. "Based on available information, in 2011 the IDF did not meet the targets set by the government for raising ultra-Orthodox, and therefore inflated the numbers of ultra-Orthodox who did not meet the criteria as laid down, so that every year by 2018, each year they displayed large inflated numbers, regardless To the real numbers.

"In 2018, the section became the director, headed by an officer of the rank of lieutenant colonel, Telem Hazan, who was a commander in the ultra-Orthodox battalion and paratroopers. A straight man. Telem identified big gaps in 2018 that year, and did a backward look at the lists until 2011, and checked there if he was ultra-Orthodox. To his astonishment, he discovered that for years he had inflated beyond the real number, these findings he passed on to his commanders at the ECHA, and this is where an amazing thing happens - where they immediately go into the depths of the beam, between him and the commanders at the EQA.

"There was a concern, therefore, about the violation of the IDF's confidence. Hazan also filed a recording of a junior officer, in which the officer confessed to being falsified by a commanding officer's order. The recording was brought to the Noma Commission. Brick further argues that the recording of the junior officer was forwarded to the head of the ECHA, and the EQA was not reported to the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, the Security Services, etc. After things were revealed here, 11, and the head of the ACA was invited to explain, he claimed that there was no falsification but one incident which was a mistake. He ignored what had happened in the past.

"How can it be," says Brick, "that the head of the ACA did not pass on this data and determined that this was a mistake of the past year. This culture of falsehood and forgery is like a cancer that eats the body of the military, it is inconceivable that such a thing will happen. An inquiry committee cannot investigate civilians, so police should be involved. Chief of Staff Kochavi, when he entered the role established teams to check and make necessary changes, has an annual master plan, but he is unable to advance it because there are those who are interfering with change in organizational culture. This is the soul of the army, and the chief of staff should be allowed to act. "

The IDF spokesman said: "An IDF initiative recently launched to examine the collection and reporting of ultra-Orthodox recruiting data in recent years by an investigative team led by Maj. Gen. Ronnie Nome. The review is still underway, and we will not be able to address the content of the hearings under it. At the end of the examination team work, the findings will be presented in a transparent and orderly manner. "