Encouraging haredi participation in the IDF - opinion
A symbolic benefit would also be achieved: the ultra-Orthodox would wear uniforms like their non-haredi counterparts and experience a sense of having “joined” the larger society.
ZAKA PERSONNEL work at a field with cars damaged during the Oct. 7 massacre. Says the writer: Haredim are leaders in kindness. It can be suggested that they be entrusted with defending the home front, which in any reasonable future scenario of military conflict, will become the front line.(photo credit: CHEN SCHIMMEL/FLASH90)ByYEDIDIA STERN
