The head of the IDF Casualty Unit, Lieutenant Colonel Reut Koren, is against the sketch show "Eretz Nehederet" that aired yesterday on Keshet 12 - and caused a stir.
The sketch showed IDF casualty intelligence officers knocking on the door of a Haredi family's home in Bnei Brak.
Journalist Ran Booker revealed on the Ynet website that Koren wrote to the soldiers of the formation: "Yesterday, a sketch was broadcast on the program 'Eretz Nehederet' that included an imitation of casualty figures in the formation. Regular and reserve personnel operate constantly - in routine days in general and especially in the Iron Sword War - with dedication, uncompromising professionalism and endless sensitivity.
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""We must not let a parody, which was intended to convey a different message and in fact made cynical and disrespectful use of us as representatives of the IDF, bear any witness to the way we operate and are perceived in Israeli society. I believe in you, I trust you and I am proud of your work.".
The sketch featured casualty informants in IDF uniforms knocking on the door of an ultra-Orthodox family on Jabotinsky Street in Bnei Brak. After knocking on the door, an ultra-Orthodox man opened it.
When the soldiers say to him: "Sir, we have come to inform you that...""
The Haredi replies: "Oh, my God, how I was afraid of the knock on the door, how the war started, I knew that in the end it would reach me too... Listen, there's no way I'm enlisting.".
When the soldiers explained to him that they were casualty officers, he calmed down: "What a relief, you don't know what you did to me.".
In the end, it turned out that the soldiers had mistakenly arrived at Jabotinsky Street in Bnei Brak instead of Jabotinsky Street in Ramat Gan. As they walked, the Haredi called out after them: "Tell them that we prayed for him, we did everything we could.".
