Many assume that leading rabbis in the Religious Zionist camp support women enlisting in the IDF.
They are mistaken. Every leading Religious Zionist Torah authority forbids young religious women from enlisting in the army. Rav Shlomo Aviner has stated that women are not permitted to serve in the army just like they are not permitted to violate Shabbat.
Some people claim that Rabbi Shlomo Goren, of blessed memory, the
first chief rabbi of Tzahal, permitted the enlistment of female
soldiers, but he did so only in specific individual cases. Every other
chief rabbi of Israel prohibited women from enlisting in the military.
Outside of rabbis in the liberal camp of Religious Zionism – who are
famous for expressing opinions contrary to the accepted halacha – the rabbinic opposition to women in the military is almost unanimous.
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