Jews Threaten To Quit Military Units If Forced to Serve With Women

This story on Excite News reveals that some Orthodox Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem are threatening to instruct male observant Jews in the Israeli army not to serve in fighting units if the military continues to use women in combat roles. Orthodox soldiers have been complaining about serving with women because Jewish law "prohibits contact between men and women who are not married or related." The observant soldiers, who also make up a small part of the army, say they encounter women through work in cramped tanks, physical training exercises and sleeping in mixed quarters.

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