It appears that the IDF consists exclusively of those elite commando-type troops, calling into question the country’s readiness for various likely types of military conflict.
Tel Aviv, July 5 – Participants in a program to bring young Diaspora adults to Israel to create and deepen their connection to the land and people of their heritage voiced concern today that Israel’s military has no personnel aside from commandos and other highly-trained troops, after interacting with dozens of current and former soldiers, all of whom bragged to the young women of their service in top-secret, elite, or tough units.
Birthright Israel funds weeklong trips to Israel for North American and some other Jews of postsecondary age, part of a decades-old effort to get Jews outside Israel to appreciate the role that the Land of Israel – and the Jews living there – plays in Jewish heritage and history. Numerous such groups facilitate encounters between the participants and IDF soldiers, during which the male soldiers, to a man, casually let on to female Birthrighters that they could disclose what they do in the military, but that might compromise operational security, but rest assured it’s something dangerous and manly.
As a result, the participants say, it appears that the IDF consists exclusively of those elite commando-type troops, calling into question the country’s readiness for various likely types of military conflict.
“We didn’t meet a single truck driver, artillery loader, or intelligence analyst,” warned Stephanie Meyer, 20, who attends the University of Connecticut. “No one was in logistics or computer hardware; no one was in the communications corps, and no one was a mechanic. Every single soldier my friends and I met was a sniper, a commando, a hacker, or some variation on the theme. I’m worried that the IDF doesn’t have enough people in important combat support positions.”
Meyer acknowledged that she wouldn’t have agreed to hook up with anyone who actually served in one of those unglamorous capacities.
Reports from other Birthright participants strengthened the cause for concern. “We had one guy who did like six awesome jobs,” recalled Jennifer Weingarten, 19, who attends Barnard College. “I was like, ‘Leave some cool skills for the rest of the army!’ Then we groped each other on the bus. But, like, the six other guys I was with over that time all said more or less the same thing. It looks like Israel has a bunch of men – really hot men, let’s not kid ourselves – who know how to be snipers, sappers, bomb defusers, paratroopers, and I guess secret agents, but no one to actually deliver ammunition? Or cook food? That doesn’t seem like a balanced military.”
“I’m going to meet the rest of Kobi’s unit tonight, though,” she admitted. “He said they’re all skilled the same way he is. I plan to find out.”
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