Chief of Staff Hertzi Halevi and State President Yitzhak Herzog spoke at the officers' course graduation ceremony held today. Naturally, they referred to the controversies that have divided Israel in recent months against the background of the emerging legal reform.
"These days, controversy is shaking Israeli society," said the Chief of Staff. "The IDF is a unique meeting point of the army and society, and therefore the controversy also reaches its servants: its soldiers - its citizens, its commanders - its sons. IDF soldiers and officers do not serve in distant countries , they protect the house, near the house, go and return to the house.
And the debate in the House is up.
Just as we knew how to contain this uniqueness throughout the years of the IDF's existence as the people's army, we will know how to do it today as well."
Halevi spoke about the reserve force and said: "We will respect the special nature of our reserve force, we will remember and remember: two reserve men can stand on both sides of the dispute, and not involve the uniform in it. They will come to the reserve, put on the uniform, leave the dispute outside and go on the mission Nablus To Nablus, shoulder to shoulder."
President Herzog said during the ceremony: "The IDF - the state people's army that must remain above all controversy - is the most obvious place for the existence of this state integration between the state as an institutional entity and as a shared story, and the extraordinary social mosaic that we see, here, here, against Our eyes," said Herzog. "I want to tell you that this unity - which exists under the stretcher, a unity in which everyone bears the responsibility of continuing together - is also what we need as a country, today more than ever."
"Even in an hour of shaking controversy."
Herzog, photo: Photo: Presidential Palace spokesmen
The President continued his allusions to the issue of reform, saying that "Even in a time of shaking controversy - Israeli unity cannot be broken. I will repeat here what I said two weeks ago at the President's House, to a team of fighters from the Golani Brigade that entered the hearts of many of us: we must not drop the stretcher And I add - we must not give up our statehood."
"The state commander engraves on his flag the values of the Jewish and democratic state, in which the connection between the Jewish and the democratic war is one supreme value.
And if I may make a personal note - you are my inspiration these days as I do my best, day and night, by virtue of my position to reach broad agreements that will prevent a terrible rift within us and preserve our country as a Jewish and democratic country, in the spirit of the values of the Declaration of Independence, which adheres to the rule of law in all respects and to human and minority rights ".
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