Hiddush requires: fight trimming beard and side locks

Hiddush religious freedom and equality applied to the Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz with a demand placed at all military barbers announcing the soldier on the right not to allow trimming sideburns or a beard. This comes after recently raised a number of complaints about cutting the side locks of the ultra-Orthodox soldiers at military barbers. Hiddush CEO Uri Regev compares the need for these signs announcing signs on buses every person has the right to sit wherever he chooses.

Regev sent the following letter to the chief of staff revealed on Wednesday at the Knesset after another case of cutting side locks at the army. In response to MK David Azoulay of Shas Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said that a barber at the military prison trimmed side locks of the ultra-Orthodox prisoner. Ya'alon claimed that the barber did not notice his side locks. Haredi MKs argued however that the detainee objected cutting his side locks and the barber insisted. Chief of Staff promised to continue investigating the case.
A few months ago Shas MK Nissim Zeev claimed his son's side locks were cut off during enlistment route. Hiddush demanded the army to investigate the complaint. Response to the IDF denied the existence of the case. At the Knesset debate last Wednesday Shas MK Avraham Michaeli told about the case in which a Haredi soldier sent to jail because he refused to cut his beard.

Regev wrote to Ya'alon and Ganz that "it seems that you cannot even treat this as an isolated incident, one time." "If this true, and military officials denials are true, then there is something more acute because it is not only apparent violation of the commands which are deeply offending the dignity and religious beliefs of the soldiers, but also a false report."
Regev states that, "the old allegations of violation of the dignity and faith of the soldiers in this sensitive area indicates the need to consider presenting army conditions on all haircuts and haircuts of religious soldiers especially at every military barber prominently and clearly, so that there will not be any error or misunderstanding in good faith or not good faith, on orders require. It is also necessary to indicate to whom to complain about violation of orders."

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