Yeshivat Nesher Hagadol

  January 8, 2026 7:15 pm Rabbi Chaim Wolfson. (Knesset Channel/screenshot) During a discussion on Thursday on the draft law in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Rabbi Chaim Wolfson, the Rosh Yeshivah of the Yerucham Yeshiva, brought up the story of his talmid, Cpt. Eitan Fisch, H’yd, a combat soldier and armored corps officer from the yishuv of Peduel, who fell in battle in the Gaza Strip. Rabbi Wolfson said that Eitan enrolled in the armored officers’ course out of a sense of mission but encountered difficulties related to mixed-gender service alongside female soldiers, contrary to prior agreements that had been conveyed to him and the yeshiva. “They told him he wouldn’t encounter women anywhere. I called my brother, who was then the commander of the armored officers’ course, and he said, ‘That’s a lie—he’ll encounter them all the time,’” Rabbi Wolfson recounted. Eitan was forced to transfer to another unit to continue the course without compromising his identi...

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