Hundreds demonstrated outside a military base Sunday after last week a group of female recruits were asked to stop singing due to the nearby presence of religious soldiers, who consider it immodest to hear women singing.
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Recruits were reportedly asked by a female commander to stop singing along to music and refrain from playing songs by female singers while doing kitchen duty.
Video: The protesters, mostly women, sang and danced in protest / Credit: Shmuel Buchris
The IDF later explained that the request stemmed from sensitivity to religious soldiers rather than discrimination against female ones.
The protesters, mostly women, gathered outside Camp 80, the IDF's non-combat basic training base near Pardes Hanna, in central Israel.
They danced and sang while holding banners saying "You won't silence us" and temporarily blocked the road outside the front gate.
The demonstrators were joined by Israeli singer Miri Aloni, who is known, among other things, for singing "Song for Peace" alongside Yitzhak Rabin minutes before his assassination in 1995.
The incident follows a series of recent affairs in which women were discriminated against in public spaces due to demands by religious men.
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