Gays in isreali military

Although ultra-orthodox Jews seek deferments on religious grounds, and the number of all Israelis seeking deferments has grown in recent years, most serve willingly, part of what they see as a sort of sacred duty. Still, he said, they did not serve, as far as he knew, in the infantry. Furthermore, the IDF considers certain transition -specific medical treatments hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgery and counseling to be medically essential for transgender personnel and thus pays for said treatments. Blue discharge Pink certificate. With the exception of the Druze community living in northern Israel, Arab Israelis are not subject to the draft, and few volunteer. A violation of these rules does not necessarily result in ejection from the service; in , a police rabbi who made homophobic statements was allowed to keep his job with a warning. In order to be part of normative society, you need a family. But last year, sexual harassment complaints were filed, mainly by female soldiers doing their compulsory service, according to the newspaper Haaretz, and an IDF survey showed that one in seven female soldiers reported sexual harassment.

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