A group of 160 parents of IDF soldiers have engaged an attorney to protect the rights of their children in the army who they say face threats, sanctions, shaming, and cancelled leave for declining to submit to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Group organizer Arnon Grossman told Arutz Sheva the issue came to the attention of Galei Tzahal, who aired an IDF spokesman statement that there is no policy to pressure soldiers into receiving the vaccine. However, members of the parents of IDF soldiers group maintain that the IDF spokesman’s denial has no relation to the situation on the ground, and that soldiers who do not want to be vaccinated continue to face shaming, personal talks with commanders, cancelled leave, and isolation.