Potential Religious Chief of Staff Promoted to Shomron Commander

Photo Credit: Maariv: Royie Nagri

After Kalper completed his officers’ course, he rapidly moved up in the ranks, and soldier noted that he is a hard worker who “almost never sleeps.”

The IDF has overgone a dramatic change in the past two decades since the beginning of the “mechina” religious pre-army Torah academies.

The percentage of religious officers is far greater than the percentage of regular religious soldiers, reflecting the determination and beliefs of yeshiva and Mechina graduates.

Their observance of Jewish law within the confines of combat situations has driven leftists up a tree because it is another clear sign that the long-time leftist power base is crumbling due to the intellectual and ideological bankruptcy of the old liberal guard.