Friday, May 14, 2010

IDF and Its Religious Soldiers

In case you missed this:-

...the IDF of 1993 is not the IDF of 2010. Here is what happened in the officers' course for the infantry corps, the spearhead of the combat units, during that period: In 1990, 2 percent of the cadets enrolled in the course were religious; by 2007, that figure had shot up to 30 percent. And this is how the intermediate generation of combat officers looks today: six out of seven lieutenant colonels in the Golani Brigade are religious and, beginning in the summer, the brigade commander will be as well. In the Kfir Brigade, three out of seven lieutenant colonels wear skullcaps, and in the Givati Brigade and the paratroopers, two out of six. In some of the infantry brigades, the number of religious company commanders has passed the 50 percent mark - more than three times the percentage of the national religious community in the overall population.

2 comments:

Suzanne Pomeranz said...

GOOD! It meanst they know and believe in what they are fighting for!

Anonymous said...

Why is this a surprise to anyone? The right and the religious segment of the population are committed to Israel and to full army service because they're true Zionists. "Settlers" still adhere to the concept of duty to the State and to the Jewish community. The left, on the other hand, today isn't "for" anything, only against (nearly everything)...and, anyway, it's hard to do miluim from Sweden.