{"id":902,"date":"2026-04-28T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=902"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:13:43","slug":"how-israel-loses-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/religions\/judaism\/how-israel-loses-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel Loses the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has been fighting Iran lately. Who is winning? Of course, it depends on who you ask (if there is still a clear answer to this type of question nowadays). One way or another, the consensus in Israel is that Iran is on the losing side. However, in a certain sense &#8211; Iran is definitely winning. Here is a partial collection of news from the last few weeks, which will clarify how:<\/p>\n<p>April 28 &#8211; Dozens of rabbis ruled that religious male soldiers cannot serve in a combat unit alongside women (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inn.co.il\/news\/695579\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 26 &#8211; Female soldiers were separated into a separate class from male soldiers in an army commanders&#8217; course (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-military\/2026_q2\/Article-ffcf6309376cd91027.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 23 &#8211; Female soldier sent to prison for covering herself with a blanket shared with a male soldier in front of the television (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-israel\/2026_q2\/Article-833d0b88349bd91027.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 19 &#8211; Female fighters were prohibited from entering a post with male ultra-Orthodox religious soldiers, so operational activity was canceled for that day (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/news\/article\/by3jwdm6zx\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 18 &#8211; In very hot weather, female soldiers were forced to run in the Jerusalem Marathon in long pants, while the male soldiers were not (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.co.il\/news\/local\/article\/20353426\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 17 &#8211; Several female soldiers, upon their release from the army, received heavy fines for wearing short shirts and jeans (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-israel\/2026_q2\/Article-9628ff32a9c9d91026.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 14 &#8211; Several soldiers had a BBQ for themselves on the Sabbath and were sentenced to prison (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mako.co.il\/news-military\/2026_q2\/Article-6bcdb40325c8d91026.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>April 10 &#8211; The Military Rabbinate Distributed &#8220;Passover Haggadah&#8221; to soldiers, with poems about soldiers shooting vs. women doing their hair (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/news\/article\/syk9pql211g\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>March 29 &#8211; Female soldiers on duty received a notice that their personal belongings would be checked for products that were not kosher for Passover (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forum.hiloni\/posts\/pfbid0T7wTVP2JYznsWNjKHvQL3G4gUc8rX4bsY9xQKT5QxbzGBRB2zrzF6vrirgJDdyp5l\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>March 17 &#8211; Dozens of rabbis signed a public letter against combining female soldiers with male soldiers in combat vehicles (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynet.co.il\/judaism\/article\/sjryo9sczx\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has been fighting Iran lately. Who is winning? Of course, it depends on who you ask (if there is still a clear answer to this type of question nowadays). One way or another, the consensus in Israel is that Iran is on the losing side. However, in a certain sense &#8211; Iran is definitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36,37,27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-and-state","category-food-and-kosher","category-holiday","category-judaism","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}