Jobniks, tired: The IDF takes advantage of the people's love for the fighters, to upholster the air conditioner officers with money

The chief of staff, who praises fighters in the media, closes great deals for the Jobniks - and not even those from 8200, but from the kitchen and the janitors. Remember this the next time you read an article about the battalion commander who does not see his children

Nir Kipnis

16/01/2022

Sunday, 16 January 2022, 19:10

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In the video: IDF tanks attack Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in response to the border shooting incident (Photo: Shai Makhlouf and Barzilai Hospital spokeswoman)

A few days ago, the Commissioner of Wages in the Ministry of Finance published a report on wage expenditures in the defense system. Bottom line, not only do most security forces serve double the average wage in the economy, a large portion of the defense budget is earmarked to fund the pensions of permanent servicemen, those who even experts who are unable to sit in one room because of their egos agree are a "time bomb."

The IDF Spokesman's response to the report noted the need to retain the best people in the military - high words for a system in which most of those serving are not only not at the highest level, but not even those who contribute to national security more than the taxi driver, university lecturer, engineer and waiter. Their high wages.

But wait, before we dive into the controversy, let's agree on the national interest of all of us, all ultra-Orthodox citizens of the State of Israel for its security: that the IDF will really be made up of the highest quality manpower - from Ramat Hachayal The profession is in uniform to the level of the most senior commanders who are

entrusted

with the use of force. It is difficult for me to even think of an important interest that unites all Israeli citizens.

Like the one in which the siren of the Day of Remembrance for the Martyrs of the Israeli War is heard.

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There is no amount of budgetary pension that will be enough to reward the same battalion commander who does not see his children (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

Free love for a fee

The problem is that the IDF also knows this - so it uses the same free love it receives from Israeli citizens to elaborate on these threads, not to encourage soldiers in the IDF to enlist in combat service and contribute to the heavy battle for Israel's security, but to mobilize public opinion. For the heavy campaign on the defense budget - and more precisely: for the perpetuation of budgetary pensions (even if in the washed-up oil "mediation pensions").

I want to make a small pause here and dwell on my arduous and not very impressive military service. I was just an infantryman. You know: half a year in training, three months in training and then three months in line (I realized the procedure has changed in the meantime). A cadet course sent me to command most of my service on recruits, just as I had barely a year before they enlisted. Terrorist attack, but at least I did not go to bed every night, but only after I had finished dealing with the last of my rookie's IDF problems and got up in the morning before them, to stand next to the on-duty trainee who reads times until leaving for the MDS this morning. "On sportswear, when the frozen metal of the cartridge sticks to the thigh, in the cold of four-thirty in the morning in the field (retired combat soldiers are now smiling at home). I'm not complaining - I really had no other option:I have a retired pilot brother and another armored brother who was wounded in the Yom Kippur War, I had a father who sat as a prisoner with the British in Latrun - and served in the reserve until the age of 57, and among the uncles, I better not even start counting: one space, senior officers and more.

The Tel Aviv Campus Complex (Photo: Reuven Castro)

I grew up in a Haifa neighborhood where the holiest place was the memorial wall at the school, the one on which the good names of the members of the neighborhood were engraved, because if they were not like that, they would not have been picked while they were at home.

I believed that even then - and to a large extent even now.

Even in the youth movement I joined while still in elementary school, they held a volleyball tournament in memory of Alex, a nest graduate who fell in the Yom Kippur War.

Whatever you say about the elite of yesteryear - and you may even be right - but it was first committed, and only then a "non-conscious of its hegemony" or all this nonsense.

An army of dodgers

But my biography is not only not unimpressively impressive, but also unimportant for just one point: I was a regular combat soldier, I drafted about five and a half years into the reserve - and when I was assigned a profile to drop out of service, I volunteered for a rear unit just because I could not bear the thought of commanding. When my good friends wear uniforms and wear red shoes, I'll have to sit at home.

That's why I'm offended every time the annual campaign, the one that has even received backing from the government known as the "government of change", a campaign in which combat soldiers are cynically used to reward the Jobniks - and I'm not talking about the computer geniuses of the cyber units. ), But for a large part of the permanent servants who do administrative work, part office work, are generously rewarded for seniority, retire with their power still in their hips and hold a "member" card, the most lucrative consumer club in Israel.

You all know them, the Jobniks on a regular basis, the kind you come across regularly or in reserve and know they would not have survived even a minute in citizenship. They enjoy a bureau, an attached vehicle and sailing conditions even though they did not crawl even for a minute on thorns in the field, did not confront the wall and the rope in a track tester, and did not hold burning eyes from lack of sleep, just before they took it upon themselves to climb Ma'ale Golani. I, after four days of fighting image.

You occasionally encounter them in the reserve, agreeing that you would not let them even be in charge of a blast shift (sorry with the blast workers) and conclude with a joke that if you take a donkey and tie it to a fence at the base, you already know the sequel, but beyond that joke it stopped For decades, it's even less funny when we realize that it's not at their expense but at our expense - and the IDF presents us with this account that will be inflated every year, and worse - will continue to inflate until we can no longer afford it.

The IDF uses the same free love it receives from Israeli citizens (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

The poster boy

So why does the taxpayer public, who know how to clap their hands every time they approve, say, a budget for yeshiva students, not protest the robbery that many uniformed people rob them of?

This is perhaps because unlike the ultra-Orthodox who look so different from most of us, the IDF is a much more sophisticated body: it submits the bill to us through the national poster boy - the combat battalion commander.

The IDF Spokesman calls it "initiate", and they do initiate: whenever there is a legitimate public debate about the defense budget with an emphasis on pensions and grants for permanent servicemen, the battalion commander who sees his children only once every three weeks, who has been injured twice, The good ones in his womb, our sons, the children of us all (without cynicism of course).

Let me be the first to doom and salute: This battalion commander deserves everything. Literally. For there is no amount of budgetary pension that will be enough to reward him for what he regularly sacrifices for all of us. Behind his back (at least) twenty Jobniks, who come to work in skirts and Sunday uniforms, enjoy unparalleled conditions in citizenship and retire full retirement at an age when most of us still work overtime to produce a normal base for old age.

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Now come and tell me: Wait, wait a minute, retired Sgt. .

Right?

So here we come to them - and all the staff positions where there is a supreme interest for all of us to be staffed by those who in citizenship are just waiting for them to pour a fortune on them.

Since I have no dispute with the military as to the paramount importance of retaining excellent people in a large proportion of positions, I want them to be paid not only a salary that would be similar to what they would have earned in citizenship, but even more so!

That is why I am in favor of employing them in personal contracts, ones that will compete with the companies that are thirsty for their invaluable talent in the civilian market.

Just come and explain to me please how many such do the army need?

century?

Thousand?

Hundred thousand?

I am willing to accept any number that the army can give reasons - not to God forbid, but to people in the Treasury, some of whom have the highest security classification, so that they can be exposed to real IDF accountability.

The IDF submits the bill to us through the national poster boy - the combat battalion commander.

Stars (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

If you think about it in depth, and the goal is to preserve the best people in the IDF, then the army was supposed to be the first to preach a transition from a large, wasteful and sometimes dumb "KVL" to a small, much more efficient and generously rewarded army, Is that right?

My heart is not rude, God forbid, against serving in a warehouse, in the car department or in the battalion kitchen: the army needs equipment and vehicles, not to mention good food, because it is walking on its stomach.

But for all these, with all due respect, do not wait with salaries of tens of thousands of shekels a month (which they earn in uniform!) In the civilian market, certainly not with a budgetary pension.

The show of the peak of emotion

The IDF is a good port on our emotional capillaries, knowing that we were all soldiers who were soldiers and parents of soldiers in the past, present or future, but here is also its problem: we all served in the Israel Defense Forces and we all know exactly what part of its manpower is quality (and we are lucky) , And what part of it is free food under conditions that would not have been given to him anywhere that should earn a living in order to survive

. Permanent. It saddened me even more to realize that among his ministers (some of whom opposed the proposal, but for populist reasons) there was not one who would fight for our money - and for our honor, the simple combat soldiers, those who did not stay permanently but know the IDF guts from three years of regular And a few more in reserve.

We were there when you called us to enlist in the army, we were there on the banks of the Litani when you sent us to "defend the northern settlements" (as the Bristols in the Knesset of every post in Lebanon, until we tried them in the middle of the night) (But only of those from Fatah, because those from Hamas are better off sitting and studying the Koran. I swear to you that this is how they explained it to us in the days of the first intifada. Seeing our money trickle into the wrong pockets, the ones you sewed as a back pouch for the combat battalion's vest, the one behind which you hide a few dozen permanent men in administrative positions, horribly mediocre people who hold us all in ... well - the fact that I remembered for a moment my combat past She's not a reason to go back and talk like a rifleman.

I guess you understood on your own.

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