A minister from the national-religious Jewish Home party criticized the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit during a cabinet meeting Sunday for publicizing a large number of articles focusing on the equal treatment of women and homosexuals in the army, Channel 10 reports.
“Why does the IDF Spokesperson always push articles in the media about the integration of women, homosexuals and transgender [people] in the IDF? Why is this good?” the report quotes Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel as saying during the meeting, which was attended by IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.
The TV station reports Ariel then addressed Eisenkot directly, saying: “Check the number of articles on these things and see if I’m right or not and if this suits you.”
The report says a number of ministers came to Eisenkot’s defense, including Naftali Bennett, Ofir Akunis and Miri Regev, and that Eisenkot vowed the army would not change its policy regarding service for women and homosexuals.
Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel attends a Jewish Home faction meeting at the Knesset on January 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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