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MauricePinay · « **Reply #10 on:** August 18, 2007, 12:25:49 AM »

(DAVID GUTTENFELDER / AP)
Israeli soldiers load missiles on a military vehicle as Israeli orthodox Jews dance, to show their support for the troops.

Israeli Soldiers eating "Haman's ears" the traditional pastry of the Judaic festival of Vengeance, Purim

After finishing an extensive period of service on the front lines of the Jordan Valley action area, the 'Netzach Yehuda' Battalion, Kfir Brigade's Ultra Orthodox battalion, set out on a front-line service trek. The total distance is 14 km, and the course finishes at the Mazada fortress by the Dead Sea. At the end, all of the warriors and soldiers of the command gathered for morning prayer services, with the view of the Dead Sea.

Photo by Abir Sultan / IDF Photo

Soldiers wearing prayer shawls and phylacteries while praying the morning service in the field prior to resuming their training.

The "Netzach Yehuda" ("Eternity of Judah") unit includes many young men who made Aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in order to join the IDF.

The "Netzach Yehuda" unit has captured scores of wanted terrorists and is reknowned for its extremely high level of motivation.

The standards of Kosher certification of the food in Nachal Hareidi, and the all-male setting are designed to enable Hareidi-religious Jews to join the IDF.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/84454

MauricePinay · « **Reply #11 on:** August 18, 2007, 12:36:41 AM »

Members of an IDF haredi unit pray in March 2007.

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IDF's fervently Orthodox unit
is seeking a few good men

By Tom Tugend Published: 04/30/2007

An Israeli infantry battalion of fervently Orthodox soldiers plans to launch an advertising campaign this summer in major Jєωιѕн newspapers in the United States and Britain seeking more foreign recruits ...

"I love the fact that I can fully live out my Jєωιѕн values while at the same time protecting Israel," Taylor says ...

Theoretically, any man -- no women, of course -- who meets these basic criteria can join the battalion, but in practice some 70 percent come from fervently Orthodox homes in Bnei Brak and other haredi enclaves.

Time is set aside for daily тαℓмυd study and the food is glatt kosher. No women are allowed on the Jordan Valley base, but on Shabbat married soldiers can meet their wives outside the base.

"Nahal Haredi has the highest proportion of Diaspora volunteers of any Israeli unit," Klebanow said. "They come to us with high motivation, and many subsequently make aliyah. Sometimes they are more Zionistic than native-born Israelis." ...

"Our enemies learn one way, and the one and only way is through the language of war and the language of the sword."

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20070430idfharedicampaign.html

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