Chief Education Officer "bad taste in involvement of rabbis"

First Published: IDF Chief Education Officer sent a letter to the IDF Personnel Directorate General Hagai Tofolinsky, in which he complains that during the IDF recruits sworn in, chaplains bear a large, central ceremonies and notes that they have "bad taste".

IDF officer with the rank of brigadier general who serves as chief education officer, Avner Paz Zuk, writes in his letter, "I find it distasteful that the central character ceremony, along with the unit commander, are the soldier rabbis", adding "The ceremony is not a religious ceremony, and there is no reason to make it be".

Brigadier General in his letter obtained by behadrey haredim, recommends changing the rules so that the unit commander will accompany the main personality unaccompanied by soldier rabbis or any other rabbi. In addition, suggests that reading verses from the bible during the ceremony will be carried out by one of the recruits and not by a rabbi.

In an interview with Gen. Abner Paz-Zuk with Yoav Zeitun from Ynet eight months ago, on the subject of rabbis and religious holy lessons that they come to hand over to the soldiers, saying that it's hard to compete with the activity rates offered by Jewish rabbis at IDF units, and said that he is concerned about the trend.

The IDF said in response: "Over the years "Ordinance recruits sworn in ceremony "was changed several times, and is currently assessed at the recommendation crowed professional bodies. As part of this re-examined the nature of the swearing-in ceremony with an emphasis on the range of action of the commander and the provisions binding command, while maintaining the character of the army as a national army that includes serving different beliefs.

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