This stereotype that haredim don't serve in the army and contribute is false and always was.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
An Israeli soldier is raised on values of respecting human life, and they don't change their values when they turn 18 and enter the army.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.
Armies are not only for offensives.
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
It's not a stereotype if it's always true.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.