1967 religious observance intersecting with military training grew into open bigotry by 2013

  Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook's pre 1967 war 'teachings' to religious soldiers, quoted by Jerold S. Auerbach in 2007, 


No Israelis were more deeply moved by this encounter, or galvanized by it, than a small group of religious Zionists who had studied together in Jerusalem. Just three weeks before the war, they had heard their beloved Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook mournfully recounting the holy places that still lay outside the borders of Israel.
Then he suddenly cried out: "Where is our Hebron? Have we forgotten it? And where is our Shechem? And our Jericho - will we forget them?"

have had a terrible subsequent effect in pre-military school t-shirts and social media posts of soldiers eroding any 'moral high ground' the IDF may have had in 'fighting terrorism' to 'protect Israel's security.'

  Jewish extremism and hatred in the IDF has been documented in March 2009 with exposure of a 'one shot 2 kills' sniper t-shirt
and a February 16, 2013 IDF soldier putting a Palestinian child in crosshairs and putting it on his Instagram account.  


  A Newsweek article “Onward, Jewish Soldiers” in November 2010 confirmed the rising power of the far right orthodox community, including West Bank settlers, in Israel's military.  One religious settler, Naftali Bennet has gone on to found a political party (HaBayit HaYehudi Jewish Home) that won enough seats in two elections he was able to become the Economy Minister in the 2013 Knesset Coalition government and the Education Minister in the 2015 Knesset Coalition Government of Israel. 


Among the elite troops of the Israeli military’s Maglan special-forces unit, Naftali Bennett was an oddity. As an officer in the unit in the early 1990s, he commanded more than 80 young men, all of them secular and many from kibbutzim communities aligned with the left-center Labor Party. Bennett is an observant Jew, and among combat officers throughout the military he was one of the few who wore a yarmulke, didn’t travel on Saturdays, and never ate cheeseburgers because of the Jewish ban on mixing milk and meat.
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Others say Israel’s center of gravity will move further than ever to the right as religious Jews retire from the military’s senior ranks and move on to prestigious roles in civilian life. Bennett, the former member of Maglan, is a good example. He went on to found a startup company that he eventually sold to a U.S. firm for $145 million. Bennett now serves as the director of the settlers’ main political arm, the Yesha Council. “It’s a sea change for Israel,” he says. He’s certainly no oddity now.


  Another article was published in January 2010 about less Israeli support for peace than the first impressions set in American and global public opinion influenced by the Jewish community federation and local JCRC (community relations councils) Israel advocacy strategy of 'relationship building' and 'community engagement' who no longer emphasize a two state solution and give greater amounts of money and time to support normalized occupation as an Israeli national 'right to exist' as a 'Jewish and democratic state.'  Normalized occupation means, in brief, inequality of freedom of movement of all citizens and non-citizens living on land (West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem) where Israel still controls freedom of movement of people and goods.  An editorial cartoon picked up by Jewish community newspapers in 2003 called "The Difference" tried to claim a 'moral high ground' for the IDF.  The 'one shot 2 kills" t-shirt exposed in 2009 and the 2013 Instagram post
eroded much moral 'high ground' the cartoon "The Difference" had tried to claim. 


  Mixing fundamentalist religion, Judaism or Christianity, into military training is a problem in both the USA and Israeli militaries.  A cadet resigned from West Point, in protest of intolerance of secular cadets by religious cadets, rather than graduate without commissioned officer status.  The USAF service academy had similar issues with Bible training of missileers (missile launch teams,) jokingly called "Jesus loves nukes," and Bible verses on gun sights.
 
 A demand to remove Bible verses from telescopic gun sights was made here.


 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation MRFF has done good work 

"Religious neutrality means religious neutrality," said [Mikey] Weinstein. "Whether it's saying that Jesus is your lord and savior or saying that there is no god makes no difference. Neither is a neutral position, and neither can be promoted by the United States Air Force Academy."

  exposing evangelical Christianity at the USAF academy as well as exposing 'atheist proselytizing.'