ChavaK
17th July 2008, 03:49 PM
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123492
(IsraelNN.com) Half of the IDF's young combat officers are religious Jews, according to statistics published as the lead story Sunday in Maariv, Israel's second largest daily newspaper. The report also says that about 40% of the cadets of the most recent Officer Course in Bahad-1, the IDF's officer training school, were religious; this number refers to all officers, as opposed to just combat officers.
This article is exciting for a couple of reasons. First:
"They are becoming the IDF's backbone. Their presence in the army is several times larger than it is in the general population."
So this means these officers may have a tremendous impact on
the non-religious soldiers, and hopefully influence them to return
to Torah.
Second, the last paragraph of the article speaks for itself:
Another reason these statistics are significant is that many religious soldiers have been refusing orders to evict Jews from their homes in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. If half of the IDF's new officers are religious, this means that the refusal movement could indeed have a deep deterrent impact on the IDF and government when and if it decides to attempt additional pullouts from territory.
(IsraelNN.com) Half of the IDF's young combat officers are religious Jews, according to statistics published as the lead story Sunday in Maariv, Israel's second largest daily newspaper. The report also says that about 40% of the cadets of the most recent Officer Course in Bahad-1, the IDF's officer training school, were religious; this number refers to all officers, as opposed to just combat officers.
This article is exciting for a couple of reasons. First:
"They are becoming the IDF's backbone. Their presence in the army is several times larger than it is in the general population."
So this means these officers may have a tremendous impact on
the non-religious soldiers, and hopefully influence them to return
to Torah.
Second, the last paragraph of the article speaks for itself:
Another reason these statistics are significant is that many religious soldiers have been refusing orders to evict Jews from their homes in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. If half of the IDF's new officers are religious, this means that the refusal movement could indeed have a deep deterrent impact on the IDF and government when and if it decides to attempt additional pullouts from territory.