In the conference room of the General Staff in the Kirya Tower, behind the back of the chief of staff, lives the immortal sentence that David Ben-Gurion said in 1963:
This sentence, which has become a symbol, folds into the unwritten contract between the IDF and Israeli society. The society will give the army its sons and daughters for demanding service, and the army will do its best to keep them and bring them home safely.
The IDF does not always succeed in doing this, but the expectation from the commander is to do everything so that he can look directly at the parents, the public and himself in the mirror. This is how every commander should behave, and this is how the IDF should behave as an organization.
The intelligence officer who allegedly pimped a female soldier in Megiddo Prison is unfit.
If the allegations are proven, he should be removed from any commanding position and severely punished.
The very idea of using women as an object for intelligence is despicable and distorted;
Certainly when it was clear that the terrorist who visited the object of the intelligence officer was systematically harassing those who were stationed next to him.
But this affair is not just about this officer and this prison.
It is much larger, and first of all requires answers from the IDF. He is their commander, even if technically they are stationed elsewhere.
The person who signed this claim is a major who serves as head of the Knesset, administration and public section of the Chief of Staff's office. To a junior officer. But if the IDF leadership believes in defining the case as "difficult, shameful and disgraceful" - as stated in the Major's letter - they are required to act immediately.
The soldiers enlist in the IDF. Some are stationed in other bodies: the GSS, the police and the prison service, the defense ministries and the Prime Minister, and more. Ben-Gurion's statement.
The current affair is set to lead the military to stop and ask questions.
What does he really know about what he does with the manpower he transfers to other organizations, and in general - why does he have to transfer soldiers to other organizations?
The institution and the GSS, the police and the IPS have budgets of billions;
Why do they need free manpower, at the expense of the Baron, who serves mostly in clerical positions?
If the army has nothing to do with the surplus manpower, let it be respected and shorten military service.
It is time to put an end to this placement office, which operates under the auspices of the IDF and old arrangements, and if the army is unable to do it itself - a petition should be submitted to the High Court, which will decide.
Until then, the IDF is invited to find out what is being done with its male and female soldiers. Yes, even if they serve elsewhere.
Worthy commanders are supposed to look at this mother and tell her "we were wrong," and do everything to be more worthy in the future.
Men and women soldiers enlist in the IDF, some of whom are stationed in other bodies. Technically, the prison guards at Gilboa are under the responsibility of the IPS, but they are soldiers for all intents and purposes and the army owes them and their parents David Ben-Gurion's statement.
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