MK Shuli Muallem-Rafaeli responds to those who attack the character of the newly-appointed IDF Chief Rabbi Eyal Karim:
"The agressive and political campaign against Rabbi Eyal Karim is sourced in terrifying ignorance and a deep fear of the same 'religious' take-over that the terrified claim to exist - of the IDF commanders and soldiers," she scathed, referencing polls which indicate that most draftees in the IDF are religious.
"The campaign instigators insist and try, again and again, to divorce the Jewish identity from the IDF, as each appointment of a kippah-wearer to a senior military role appears to them as if 'the state has been stolen.'"