{"id":508594,"date":"2026-06-24T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508594\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T08:35:10","slug":"idf-chief-meets-with-yeshiva-rabbis-emphasizes-need-for-thousands-of-combat-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/508594\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Chief Meets with Yeshiva Rabbis, Emphasizes Need for Thousands of Combat Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held a meeting yesterday with rabbis from the national-religious yeshiva world, attended by his deputy, Maj. Gen. Tamir Yadai, Ground Forces Commander Maj. Gen. Nadav Lotan, Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Ittai Ofir, Chief Military Rabbi Col. Eyal Karim and Head of the Manpower Planning and Management Division Col. Shai Tayeb, according to the IDF Spokesperson. During the meeting, the military&#8217;s needs were presented, with emphasis on the required increase in manpower in light of operational challenges and the scope of missions in combat zones. The Chief of Staff made clear that the IDF still lacks thousands of combat soldiers and that expanding the integration of women in key positions and combat roles is of tremendous operational importance, and the IDF will continue to work to expand it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir held a meeting yesterday with rabbis from the national-religious yeshiva&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-508594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}