IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-General Gadi Eizenkott met for a number of hours with rabbonim from thje dati leumi community headed by Rabbi Chaim Druckman Shlita and Rabbi Zalman Menachem. Eizenkott listened to their concerns over the integration of females into combat units, informing them that religious officers’ cadets in Base 1 would be accommodated rather than forced to enter a mixed unit.

He promised them that separate companies would be established in the Lahav and Nachshon battalions next month.

Rav Melamed has recently spoken out about serving in and commanding such units, stating one has to give up one’s parnasa rather than to command a mixed unit.

Eizenkott met with 16 rabbonim this week in his office, a meeting that latest a number of hours.