The wives of soldiers serving in Lebanon published a photo showing mixed sleeping arrangements in the quarters of an armored battalion commander in Lebanon, Arutz Sheva reported.

The footage shows a female soldier sleeping next to male soldiers in close proximity, with the foot of her bed literally touching the male soldiers’ beds.

The footage, which reached the wives of soldiers in the battalion, caused a public uproar.

The wife of one of the soldiers wrote: “The battalion commander is religious. I send my husband to fight and trust him 100 percent, but this is inanity and an abnormal situation that he is forced to sleep in the same room with a woman, head-to-toe. Where are the elected officials? Where is the Chief Military Rabbi?”

The Soldiers’ Wives for the Kedusha of the Camp organization issued a statement saying: “The senior leadership of the IDF has been overcome by radical feminist organizations and the High Court. The mixing in the field has reached horrifying extremes. The disturbing testimonies and footage keep pouring in, and the comments this week by the armored battalion rabbi about the level of pritzus in the field—which, as the Torah warns, can drive away the Shechina, chalilah—should have been brought to a Cabinet meeting for clear decisions to be made.

“We demand that elected officials and Defense Minister Yisrael Katz come to their senses and wake up. It’s unfathomable to talk about drafting the Chareidi community when religious soldiers can’t serve in accordance with halacha.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)