Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu’s sons were among the young men joining the IDF.
A new cohort of Israel Defense Forces recruits was sworn into the Givati Brigade during a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday evening.
The infantrymen received their purple berets after they swore to “maintain allegiance to the State of Israel, its laws, and its authorities, to accept upon myself unconditionally the discipline of the IDF, to obey all the orders and instructions given by authorized commanders, and to devote all my energies, and even sacrifice my life, for the protection of the homeland and the liberty of Israel.”
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich shared a video of the ceremony on X on Sunday night, saying: “What a nation. What an army. What youth. What an uplifting spirit and sense of mission.”