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Yekutiel Weiss's avatar

This article Warmed my heart! I wish Ellen Levi

and her family the best of success. May G-d watch over you and your family and the Jewish Nation.

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Howard Schranz's avatar

All this "learning" talk makes me sick. With today's need for manual labor and manpower, I suggest Israel do what other countries do in times of war. Move the women into the more intellectual fields, like medicine and learning Torah, leading the physically naturally-stronger men into agricultural, industrial labor, and the military.

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Yekutiel Weiss's avatar

A "Progressive and intellectual such as yourself ......" saying such primitive things.. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?j

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Howard Schranz's avatar

Despite my left-wing bona fides, I strongly agree with my hero Navratilova that most biological men have distinct advantages over women in physical strength.

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Eli B's avatar

"The army has told them that due to the loss of so many soldiers and the stress of the war, they need more new recruits."

Not doubting he is being truthful, but B"H the number of soldiers killed seems to have been relatively low, in the hundreds, while they have called up hundreds of thousands, so do they really need more recruits?

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Natan Slifkin's avatar

Over 500 killed, many hundreds/thousands injured, and the war in Gaza will last all year, and there's likely to be a much more severe war with Hezbollah, and the need for reservists harms the economy. So it's extremely understandable that they need to recruit more.

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Chana Siegel's avatar

"Relatively low"? So you think the lives of our benishim are cheap? Disposable? You don't think their training takes any time or effort at all? That miluimnikim with wives, children, jobs, and businesses should just stay on the line in Gaza indefinitely?

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Eli B's avatar

CHILL.

I didn't say any of those points. I don't think any of those things.

My question was purely one of logistics / statistics.

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Chana Siegel's avatar

Meanwhile, who's doing guard duty in the yishuvim? In my daughter's yishuv, it's the young mothers and the 7th and 8th graders. Who's guarding the places on the periphery? Who's patrolling the haredi neighborhoods? Not their residents.

"CHILL" yourself. And then tell me again how nobody but the haredi sector values learning. You value it as long as it's guarded by someone else's sweat and blood, and paid for out of their pockets.

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Eli B's avatar

I'm not Charedi and I greatly value the sacrifices of the DL communities and I despise the way the Charedi community isn't suffering the way the DL are.

Still, nothing to do with my comment

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Chana Siegel's avatar

We will do what needs to be done for as long as we must, but when they take our כבשה רכה so that haredi boys in Potemkin "yeshivas" set up to keep their non-learners out of the IDF during wartime, of course we are outraged.

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Eli B's avatar

But what's that got to do with my comment?

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Chana Siegel's avatar

We're a very small country, and the manpower needs for defense have increased exponentially because of this war. Why is this such a surprise? Even a country as vast as America finds it challenging to recruit, train, and maintain sufficient qualified troops during peace time.

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ChanaRachel's avatar

Here are some statistics, published in today's ynet, that clarify the man-power issue:

https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/bjwwd11wi6

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