Media personality Yinon Magal, host of the "Patriots" program on Channel 14, sparked a news storm on social media today (Tuesday) after claiming on his program on 103FM radio that "women should not be in the army. This is a male-oriented event.".
In his remarks, Magal referred to the departure of dozens of religious fighters from an event produced by the army for the Golani Brigade - following women's singing, and said on the program: "People who have faith need to be respected, there are people in religious Zionism who are more dossim, and don't listen to women's singing, so it's impossible to have an event that has women's singing. I want the dossim in the army, I don't want women in the army - the army should be an event for men, not for women, in my opinion. It is forbidden to mix the sexes because it creates tensions and it needs to be prevented. Why? Because people need to be focused on victory.".
News 12 journalists reacted angrily to Magal's comments. Political correspondent Yaron Avraham wrote: "A dangerous and dark man.".
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Reporter Michal Peilan attacked: "We would be happy if shady people who don't know how to behave in the public sphere would simply disappear from the public sphere.".
