Are they no longer blurring the 'Messiah' patch? In an official photo released by the IDF spokesman of the 4-year-old Gazan boy who was sent toward an IDF post in the Gaza buffer zone, unique symbols can be seen on the helmet of the fighter appearing in the photo.
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The first patch bears the inscription "Messiah" and the second of the Temple.
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Previously, during a tour by Herzi Halevi in October in the village of Aita a-Shaab in southern Lebanon, he approached a reservist with a "Messiah" patch, removed it from his uniform and put it in his pocket. "You can put it close to your heart, but on the uniform - only military things," Halevi said.
The event caused a stir, and some accused Herzi Halevi of hatred for religion.
Six months earlier, an IDF spokesman published a photo of soldiers from an activity in Khan Yunis, on which the "Messiah" patch on the arm of one of the soldiers was blurred. The blurring was published and the IDF spokesman was criticized.
Channel 14 presenter Boaz Golan responded on the air to the photo published by the IDF spokesman: "I'm concentrating on the 'Messiah' patch. Maybe the days of the Messiah have truly arrived under the new Chief of Staff, and with God's help it will take us to another place. Unlike previous times, this time the IDF spokesman is not obscuring it - we see it proudly on the Jewish head. This is the Jewish people, and this is what we are fighting for.".
This week, the new Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir addressed the issue of patches at the General Command Staff conference. "I don't intend to rip a patch off any soldier, that's your job. I don't intend to deal with it and you don't want me to deal with it either, that's the job of the chain of command.".
