MK Shuli Mualem Refaeli (Jewish Home) responded on Sunday afternoon to the decree forbidding religious IDF soldiers to grow beards, scheduled to be implemented later on during the week.
“The feeling is that someone in the IDF is confused…The subject of Jewish identity was been hurt and it now seems as though soldiers, who, for religious reasons, chose not to shave their beards, will be forced to do so.”
“The model of the nation’s army will only be maintained so long as the army remembers to contain all sectors of society and deal with significant matters standing at the doorstep of the Israeli Defense Force.”