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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Army says religious Paratroopers warned after turning back on female instructor
Some 30 soldiers in the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade refused to listen to a female parachuting instructor this week, turning their backs to her when she tried to give them a demonstration, the army says.
The incident came to light after the mother of the instructor, a women’s rights activist, posted about it on Twitter earlier in the day.
The military confirms that the incident indeed took place.
According to the IDF, the soldiers were from a unit made up of religious yeshiva students.
The army says the soldiers’ commanders had a “conversation” with them, in which they were told that they would be kicked out of the parachuting course if they continued to show “disrespect” toward the female instructors.
— Judah Ari Gross
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