Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) slammed MK Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) for criticizing the appointment of a female Israeli Air Force pilot to command an aviation squadron. " What he said was nonsense. For anyone who visits the charming museum at the Masada National Park, I recommend seeing the parts of the prayer shawls that the women of the community wore while praying," said Herzog, invoking the desperate fight the Jews gave the Romans at Masada after the Second Temple was destroyed.
He added that "the IDF will win only with the help of those men and women with motivation and national values that will lead the army in the next campaign."