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Recruiting women into the IDF

שו”תCategory: HalachaRecruiting women into the IDF
asked 2 years ago

Does the rabbi know or think that there is a halakhic prohibition (regardless of considerations of efficiency for the army, what is in its interest to women, health-wise, mentally, etc.) for women to enlist in a rear or combat role in the army? The closest thing I have seen to a prohibition on this subject is carrying a weapon, which is a “man’s tool,” on a woman, but all the later rabbis have ruled that there is no problem with this.

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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago

I used to think so, but in the last mishna I think there is no halakhic prohibition. Weapons are no longer a man’s tool today.

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