Podcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on How Haredi Jews Think About Serving in the IDF

Mandatory army service plays an essential function within Israeli civic culture, absorbing and equalizing Ashkenazi, Mizrahi (Middle Eastern), religious, secular, male, female, Ethiopian, Russian, Druze, and more. In the IDF, all of these identities step back and create room for a national Israeli identity to step forward.