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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

pre-military academies

Illustrative: Screenshot from a video of settlers firing at the West Bank village of Umm Safa on June 24, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 25, 2023, 9:33 am
Jailed Jewish extremist released for rehabilitation at pre-military program
Minor who allegedly took part in settler riots will attend the Bnei David Mechina, known for its rabbis’ controversial remarks, in unprecedented deal approved by defense minister
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Asaf Namburg (Screencapture/Kan)
September 9, 2019, 2:06 am
Journalist suspended for falsely portraying rabbi as rabidly anti-secular
Channel 13 report on education minister’s pre-military school used out-of-context video clips in which Rabbi Asaf Namburg appeared to call secular Jews ‘wicked’
By ToI Staff
Democratic Camp leader Nitzan Horowitz, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 12, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 29, 2019, 5:06 pm
Democratic Camp chief: Appointment of education minister borders on illegitimate
Nitzan Horowitz says Rafi Peretz encourages anti-secularism and is ‘unworthy’ of his cabinet post
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks a Yemina party event in Elkana, August 21, 2019. )
August 29, 2019, 2:59 am
Students at education minister’s academy taught to avoid the IDF, secular Jews
TV shows videos from pre-army Otzem school that were removed from internet when Rafi Peretz took up his post; secular Jews are ‘wicked,’ says one teacher, who also calls IDF feeble
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits a weapons factory in Sderot on December 14, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)
July 2, 2019, 3:14 pm
Liberman says religious pre-military academies creating private militias
Yisrael Beytenu leader criticized by right-wing politicians, who defend religious soldiers and say former defense minister should be ‘ashamed’
By Stuart Winer
Rabbi Eli Sadan speaks during a protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 2, 2018, 10:38 am
Officers and gentlemen? Religious Zionist flagship academy comes under scrutiny
Illiberal remarks by rabbi-teachers shine spotlight on pre-military institution, whose graduates wield considerable influence in the IDF
By Jacob Magid
Israeli teens light candles at a vigil at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 28, 2018, in memory of the 10 victims killed in a flash flood while hiking in the Judean Desert. (Screen capture/YouTube)
April 28, 2018, 10:57 pm
Thousands gather at Tel Aviv candlelight vigil for victims of flash flood
Similar memorials held at Jerusalem’s Zion Square and in central town of Mazkeret Batya, where one of the casualties, Tzur Alfi, lived
By ToI Staff
File: Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends a committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 23, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 7, 2018, 11:30 am
Education minister disavows rabbi who called women ‘weak-minded’
‘This is not what Judaism believes,’ Bennett says after Yosef Kelner of Eli pre-army academy tells students women lack intellect, spiritual capacity
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yosef Kelner (YouTube screenshot)
February 7, 2018, 1:23 am
Rabbi tells IDF recruits women ‘weak-minded,’ incapable of spirituality
At Eli pre-army academy, Yosef Kelner disparages women with careers as ‘gorillas,’ says sending females to college doesn’t turn them into ‘great geniuses’
By Tamar Pileggi
Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner (Screencapture: YouTube)
January 30, 2018, 12:48 am
Nationalist rabbi warns young women not to serve, says IDF ‘destroys’ families
Rabbi Tzvi Kostiner, who heads a pre-army academy, tells teens the army wants to harm families, mixed service has led to ‘insanity’
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 29, 2017, 6:55 pm
Liberman backpedals on demand that pre-army yeshiva head resign
Defense Minister says he will limit size of program after AG rules he doesn’t have authority for ultimatum against Yigal Levinstein over sexist remarks
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Female soldiers from the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in southern Israel on December 10, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
March 29, 2017, 9:10 am
AG: Liberman can’t summon rabbi over ‘sexist’ comments
Mandelblit concludes punishing Eli yeshiva chief for disparaging female soldiers is beyond defense minister’s authority
By Stuart Winer
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