I do not know who the petitioners who asked the High Court to join the IDF's elite units are, but it is clear to me where the recruits who will enter these positions will come from if the petition is accepted:
For the most part, from religious Zionism.
From the prestigious and leading studios, after a year of service in "Mechinat Tzahali" or in nursery schools full of few settlements.
It so happened that after a stormy and sweeping opposition to the integration of women in the Armored Corps - while presenting the "dangerous" trend, as one that would bring into the corps those who enlisted to infiltrate the land army with an anti-national agenda that would wash soldiers' minds in "extreme feminism." Kim parked the chariot tanks and preferred to listen to podcasts of "Women Making Peace" - in the end, the person who became the IDF's first armored officer was actually Farkash, from the locality of Ali, who studied at the Zvia Revava studio in Samaria.
When the IDF opened the fighting professions for women on a significant scale, many rabbis raised the miracle of the revolt and launched a campaign with an intensity never seen before in the streets of Israel under the name "Love the IDF - stop the joint service."
I researched the campaign in depth with my colleague Dr. Dana Masad. We soon learned that the ultra-Orthodox bodies that funded it - and these were the only ones - did not fear for the peace of the IDF. They feared for the status of men, especially rabbis Professions opened to women were to be flocked mainly by girls from the national-religious community.
Until that time, the IDF - a state army in a democratic state - cooperated with a community that sought to replicate gender inequality, and allowed it to maintain a reality that only the men within it would "gain" the "military capital", ie "Israeli capital" (exposure to social networks For attractive professions, for status in Israeli society) The women, as in an automatic scenario, will be exempted and referred to national service. He will make the predatory IDF weak and he will lose in the next campaign, until the arguments that their integration into the army will become unclean and they will not establish a family.
Now, with the opening of the gates of Unit 669, the General Staff Reconnaissance Squadron, the Naval Command and the Sheldag, once again threatening rabbis. This time: a warning of the IDF turning into an army of tribes.
As stated, it is not the state of the army that bothers them but their status in their community.
If the data in front of me is also in front of them, they know that the first to compete for these attractive professions will be national religiosity, which will be freed from these more Israeli units.
And those who "write" rabbis less, they will no longer stay "at home", but will continue to careers whose characteristic is that they will manage women and men and be more independent.
They will leave the rabbis in the home space - and they themselves will be in the public space.
Smutrich's threat (and not for the first time), "to give up a recruitment cycle", will not materialize.
If so, it will be a recruitment cycle, which at least at the ballot box, will be waived.
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