Mixed reactions to the decision to include women in units 669 and infantry | Israel Today

"Congratulations to the brave maids who petitioned the Supreme Court and brought the IDF to take another step towards equal opportunities,"

Labor Party Chairman Merav Michaeli wrote this morning (Friday) after Israel Today revealed that women will serve for the first time in the prestigious 669 rescue unit and Infantry.

Attorneys Yanor Bartenthal and Amichai Weinberger said on behalf of the petitioners in the Patrol High Court: "This is a historic day.

"After a long struggle of three years in which women fighters fought to be allowed to serve in the special units in the IDF and to be judged according to their abilities and not according to their gender," the IDF is taking a significant step on the path to equality. "

They added: "We spoke with the petitioners who are currently serving in the army as combatants and they are happy with the decision and some of them now intend to differentiate into Unit 669. At the same time, they intend to continue the petition until all special IDF units for women open."

Congratulations to the brave maids who petitioned the Supreme Court and brought the IDF to take another step towards equal opportunities.

From today they said: Warriors * and warriors * 669!

Great news, but many combat units are still closed to girls.

Step by step, the IDF and its commanders also understand that our struggle for equality is not going anywhere, and we will not stop it. Pic.twitter.com/oILrcxSGFk

- Merav Michaeli Merav Michaeli (@MeravMichaeli) May 27, 2022

Alongside the hot reactions, there were reactions that opposed the decision.

The chairman of the Noam party, Avi Maoz, said: "The regressions do not stop in red.

Only a few years ago, upon completion of an in-depth investigation, the Air Force decided that work in 669 required physical exertion that could harm the bodies of combatants.

Has it since been decided that there should be no effort in the IDF's special units or has the muscle mass of women changed? "

Maoz added: "The regressive agenda from the seminary of the New Israel Fund organizations and Yohalam continues to dictate the agenda.

"The damage that the women will suffer in their bodies and that the rescue unit of the Air Force will pay in its capacity - are only a necessary and 'marginal' price on the way to the realization of these agendas."

"The regressions do not stop in red," Avi Maoz, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

The organization of combat theory also stated: "The IDF's decision did not come from professional thinking, but from legal coercion by civilian elements.

It has once again been proven that extremist feminist organizations run the IDF through the High Court.

Judicial activism turned the IDF senior command into a soldier of the progressive left.

The Air Force website still has an official statement from several years ago that 'final' women will not serve in 669 because of the physiological gap between men and women, after many experiments and tests. Has there been a gender evolution since? Have Israel's enemies laid down their weapons? Nothing has changed except pressure "We are calling on the chief of staff to be the gatekeeper and last line in the face of this attack, which fatally undermines the IDF's operational and moral strength." .

Participated in the preparation of the article: Hanan Greenwood

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